Project Gutenberg 2010-04-14 Public domain in the USA. 446 Pohl, Frederik 1919 2013 Pohl, Frederick Pohl, Frederik George, Jr. MacCreigh, James Lavond, Paul Dennis Emshwiller, Ed 1925 1990 Emsh Emsh, Ed Alexander, Ed Emshwiller, Edmund A. Willer EMSH The Tunnel Under the World Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Tunnel Under the World" by Frederik Pohl is a science fiction novel written in the mid-20th century. The book explores themes of identity, reality, and the impact of advertising in a dystopian society where the inhabitants of a town are trapped in a perpetual loop of the same day, June 15th. The story unfolds through the experiences of Guy Burckhardt, who begins to uncover the unsettling truth behind his existence. The narrative centers on Guy Burckhardt, who wakes up from a nightmare only to find himself in a strange and repetitive reality where the residents of Tylerton are subjected to bizarre advertisements and manipulated by powerful unseen forces. Burckhardt soon realizes that he and the other townsfolk are pawns in a massive advertising scheme, living out their lives as mere experiments. As he grapples with the revelations of being dead yet functioning in a simulated reality, he discovers that the truth lies in an underground tunnel that connects to the factory where their lives are orchestrated. The story builds to a tense climax as Burckhardt attempts to escape the control of his advertisers and reclaim his freedom, leading to a shocking conclusion that questions the nature of human existence and autonomy. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31979/31979-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 99775 99785 2024-09-13T12:37:39.210997 2023-09-14T06:47:33.299354 text/html text/html 96461 2010-04-14T10:10:06 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 248492 2010-04-14T10:10:06 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 231087 2024-09-13T12:37:41.880031 application/epub+zip 231897 2024-09-13T12:37:39.693016 application/epub+zip 80874 2024-09-13T12:37:39.439008 application/epub+zip 281623 2024-09-13T12:37:43.659960 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 269709 2024-09-13T12:37:41.637976 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 120162 2022-09-14T15:51:42.127046 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 88136 88033 2024-09-13T12:37:38.930007 2023-09-14T06:47:33.065327 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 87961 2010-04-14T10:10:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 33911 2010-04-14T10:10:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19743 2024-09-13T12:37:43.814972 application/rdf+xml 26291 2024-09-13T12:37:39.524973 image/jpeg 4574 2024-09-13T12:37:39.486005 image/jpeg 261425 2024-09-13T12:37:39.253976 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog More titles under McCann, Edson en.wikipedia en.wikipedia