A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!
Also published as Tunnel Through the Deeps.
Over 4,000 miles in
length, intended to sustain a pressure of 1,000 atmospheres while
accommodating cargo and passengers traveling in excess of 1,000 miles
per hour, the Transatlantic Tunnel is the greatest engineering feat in
the history of the British Empire, a project worthy of Her Majesty's
Empire in this the eighth decade of the twentieth century.
If the project is a success, the credit will belong to Captain Augustus
Washington, the most brilliant engineer of our age. It is Washington's
greatest hope that his success will at last erase the family shame
inspired by that other Washington, George, traitor to his King, who was
hanged by Lord Cornwallis more than two centuries ago.
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Harry Harrison
Harry Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey, 1925–2012) was an American science fiction (SF) author, best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966). The latter was the rough basis for the motion picture Soylent Green (1973). Harrison was (with Brian Aldiss) the co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.
Aldiss called him "a constant peer and great family friend". His friend Michael Carroll said, "Imagine Pirates of the Caribbean or Raiders of the Lost Ark, and picture them as science-fiction novels. They're rip-roaring adventures, but they're stories with a lot of heart."
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