Tunnel Through the Deeps
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Tunnel Through the Deeps (also published as A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!) is a 1972 science fiction novel by Harry Harrison.
[edit] Plot
The book takes place in an alternate history in which the American War of Independence was lost, George Washington was shot as a traitor, and America is still a British colony. The protagonist, Augustus Washington, is a direct descendant of George Washington.
The title refers to the construction of a submerged floating-tube pontoon bridge/tunnel across the Atlantic Ocean in the novel.
Captain Augustine Washington and Sir Isambard Brassey-Brunel (descendant of Isambard Kingdom Brunel) get together to link the heart of the British Empire with its far-flung Atlantic colony in North America.
Detective Richard Tracy also makes an appearance.
[edit] See also
[edit] Outside Link
Worlds Beside Worlds (Harry Harrison desribes how the book was written)
