The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl (.ePUB)
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The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl
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Overview: “The Tunnel Under the World” in its striking and despairing audacity caught everyone’s attention. One of the earliest stories set in a landscape of virtual reality, the story portrays the advertising industry and its ethic in a fashion which seems surrealistic but that surrealism (in a technique which anticipates Kurt Vonnegut’s later novels) is only a cover for an absolute and grim reality. Pohl has two anecdotes about the aftermath of this story: in the first a stranger met at a party said learning that Pohl was a science fiction writer “I don’t like science fiction at all but I read this story years ago which I cannot get out of my head” and then proceeded to unreel the plot of “The Tunnel Under the World” in ghastly detail. In his second anecdote, Pohl described receiving a fan letter praising the story and concluding “This is the way that the world would be run if the advertising agencies ran the world.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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