The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl
"The Tunnel Under the World" by Frederik Pohl is a science fiction short story published in 1955. Guy Burckhardt wakes each morning to the same nightmare and the same date: June 15. His town of Tylerton seems normal, yet something feels terribly wrong. Relentless advertising jingles fill the air, and strange inconsistencies emerge everywhere. When Burckhardt begins investigating, he uncovers a disturbing truth about his reality—one that challenges everything he believes about
himself and the world around him. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Read or download for free
For an overview of the different reading options, see our Reading Guide
| Reading Options | Url | Size | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read now! | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31979.html.images | 98 kB | |||
| EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31979.epub3.images | 225 kB | |||
| EPUB (older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31979.epub.images | 226 kB | |||
| EPUB (no images, older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31979.epub.noimages | 78 kB | |||
| Kindle | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31979.kf8.images | 275 kB | |||
| older Kindles | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31979.kindle.images | 263 kB | |||
| Plain Text UTF-8 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31979.txt.utf-8 | 86 kB | |||
| Download HTML (zip) | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/31979/pg31979-h.zip | 255 kB | |||
| There may be more files related to this item. | |||||
Similar Books
About this eBook
| Author | Pohl, Frederik, 1919-2013 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Emshwiller, Ed, 1925-1990 |
| Title | The Tunnel Under the World |
| Series Title | Produced from Galaxy Science Fiction January 1955. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tunnel_under_the_World |
| Credits |
Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 85.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 31979 |
| Release Date | Apr 14, 2010 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 951 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! | |