Wednesday, January 11, 2006

A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah (4/10)

Harry Harrison
Science Fiction / Alternate History

This was not that good. The premise was that America was still a English colony and that they were building a transatlantic tunnel (Hurrah?). The story has some nice technologies (It does have Babbage engines, mobile phones and mag lev trains which were all rather cool) but was written in a “heroic fantasy” kind of style. The heroes are larger than life and their exploits are just a bit too wonderful. Took me a while to get around to reading this one and I will now sell it off.


Readibility (2/5)
Quality (2/5)

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