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The story begins with a family leaving the city through a long tunnel to go on a vacation. There is anticipation that slowly gives way to anxiety as they are in the tunnel. We ultimately learn about what the tunnel does: it closes off, trapping the cars within, who will perish - a kind of population control measure.
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The story begins with a family leaving the city through a long tunnel to go on a vacation. There is anticipation that slowly gives way to anxiety as they are in the tunnel. We ultimately learn about what the tunnel does: it closes off, trapping the cars within, who will perish - a kind of population control measure.
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The story begins with a family leaving the city through a long tunnel to go on a vacation. There is anticipation that slowly gives way to anxiety as they are in the tunnel. We ultimately learn about what the tunnel does: it closes off, trapping the cars within, who will perish - a kind of population control measure.
story-identification short-stories
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The story begins with a family leaving the city through a long tunnel to go on a vacation. There is anticipation that slowly gives way to anxiety as they are in the tunnel. We ultimately learn about what the tunnel does: it closes off, trapping the cars within, who will perish - a kind of population control measure.
story-identification short-stories
edited Aug 27 at 5:00
Edlothiad
54k20284294
asked Aug 27 at 0:40
Marc
612
edited Aug 27 at 5:00
Edlothiad
54k20284294
edited Aug 27 at 5:00
Edlothiad
54k20284294
edited Aug 27 at 5:00
Edlothiad
54k20284294
54k20284294
asked Aug 27 at 0:40
Marc
612
asked Aug 27 at 0:40
Marc
612
asked Aug 27 at 0:40
Marc
612
612
possibly the same as scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34151/…
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Aug 28 at 23:45
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possibly the same as scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34151/…
– Otis
Aug 28 at 23:45
possibly the same as scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34151/…
– Otis
Aug 28 at 23:45
possibly the same as scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34151/…
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This is "The Tunnel Ahead", by Alice Glaser, which can be read in the November 1961 edition of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
A summary from Alice Glaser's entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction:
(1929-1970) US writer and editor, a Radcliffe graduate and social activist who lived in Paris for several years before returning to New York to become an associate editor of Esquire magazine (see Slicks). Her one sf story is the frequently anthologized "The Tunnel Ahead" (November 1961 F&SF), reminiscent in some ways of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" (26 June 1948 The New Yorker). In a overcrowded, Dystopian future when the US population has reached one billion, a family returning to Manhattan (see New York) from the crowded beaches must drive through an 8500 foot tunnel – the only way into or out of the city. At random intervals some ten times per week, the tunnel is sealed off and the occupants of the 700-odd trapped vehicles are gassed to help reduce Overpopulation; nevertheless this risk offers city-dwellers their only excitement in life. Glaser also contributed nonfiction to Esquire, but published no other fiction. A short film adaptation of "The Tunnel Ahead" directed by André Øvredal, who made Trollhunter (2010), is in post-production in Norway.
It was the answer to 60s short story, robot cars travel through a tunnel, occupants are liquefied and Looking for story about population control via beach vacation, and accepted for the latter one.
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As far as I can tell, the answer was accepted only for the second of the two old questions you linked to.
– user14111
Aug 27 at 2:29
@user14111: You're right. It's the better answer, though. :-P
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1 Answer
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This is "The Tunnel Ahead", by Alice Glaser, which can be read in the November 1961 edition of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
A summary from Alice Glaser's entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction:
(1929-1970) US writer and editor, a Radcliffe graduate and social activist who lived in Paris for several years before returning to New York to become an associate editor of Esquire magazine (see Slicks). Her one sf story is the frequently anthologized "The Tunnel Ahead" (November 1961 F&SF), reminiscent in some ways of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" (26 June 1948 The New Yorker). In a overcrowded, Dystopian future when the US population has reached one billion, a family returning to Manhattan (see New York) from the crowded beaches must drive through an 8500 foot tunnel – the only way into or out of the city. At random intervals some ten times per week, the tunnel is sealed off and the occupants of the 700-odd trapped vehicles are gassed to help reduce Overpopulation; nevertheless this risk offers city-dwellers their only excitement in life. Glaser also contributed nonfiction to Esquire, but published no other fiction. A short film adaptation of "The Tunnel Ahead" directed by André Øvredal, who made Trollhunter (2010), is in post-production in Norway.
It was the answer to 60s short story, robot cars travel through a tunnel, occupants are liquefied and Looking for story about population control via beach vacation, and accepted for the latter one.
answered Aug 27 at 0:43
FuzzyBoots
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As far as I can tell, the answer was accepted only for the second of the two old questions you linked to.
– user14111
Aug 27 at 2:29
@user14111: You're right. It's the better answer, though. :-P
– FuzzyBoots
Aug 27 at 3:28
add a comment |Â
up vote
15
down vote
This is "The Tunnel Ahead", by Alice Glaser, which can be read in the November 1961 edition of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
A summary from Alice Glaser's entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction:
(1929-1970) US writer and editor, a Radcliffe graduate and social activist who lived in Paris for several years before returning to New York to become an associate editor of Esquire magazine (see Slicks). Her one sf story is the frequently anthologized "The Tunnel Ahead" (November 1961 F&SF), reminiscent in some ways of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" (26 June 1948 The New Yorker). In a overcrowded, Dystopian future when the US population has reached one billion, a family returning to Manhattan (see New York) from the crowded beaches must drive through an 8500 foot tunnel – the only way into or out of the city. At random intervals some ten times per week, the tunnel is sealed off and the occupants of the 700-odd trapped vehicles are gassed to help reduce Overpopulation; nevertheless this risk offers city-dwellers their only excitement in life. Glaser also contributed nonfiction to Esquire, but published no other fiction. A short film adaptation of "The Tunnel Ahead" directed by André Øvredal, who made Trollhunter (2010), is in post-production in Norway.
It was the answer to 60s short story, robot cars travel through a tunnel, occupants are liquefied and Looking for story about population control via beach vacation, and accepted for the latter one.
answered Aug 27 at 0:43
FuzzyBoots
81k10246390
As far as I can tell, the answer was accepted only for the second of the two old questions you linked to.
– user14111
Aug 27 at 2:29
@user14111: You're right. It's the better answer, though. :-P
– FuzzyBoots
Aug 27 at 3:28
add a comment |Â
up vote
15
down vote
up vote
15
down vote
This is "The Tunnel Ahead", by Alice Glaser, which can be read in the November 1961 edition of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
A summary from Alice Glaser's entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction:
(1929-1970) US writer and editor, a Radcliffe graduate and social activist who lived in Paris for several years before returning to New York to become an associate editor of Esquire magazine (see Slicks). Her one sf story is the frequently anthologized "The Tunnel Ahead" (November 1961 F&SF), reminiscent in some ways of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" (26 June 1948 The New Yorker). In a overcrowded, Dystopian future when the US population has reached one billion, a family returning to Manhattan (see New York) from the crowded beaches must drive through an 8500 foot tunnel – the only way into or out of the city. At random intervals some ten times per week, the tunnel is sealed off and the occupants of the 700-odd trapped vehicles are gassed to help reduce Overpopulation; nevertheless this risk offers city-dwellers their only excitement in life. Glaser also contributed nonfiction to Esquire, but published no other fiction. A short film adaptation of "The Tunnel Ahead" directed by André Øvredal, who made Trollhunter (2010), is in post-production in Norway.
It was the answer to 60s short story, robot cars travel through a tunnel, occupants are liquefied and Looking for story about population control via beach vacation, and accepted for the latter one.
answered Aug 27 at 0:43
FuzzyBoots
81k10246390
This is "The Tunnel Ahead", by Alice Glaser, which can be read in the November 1961 edition of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
A summary from Alice Glaser's entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction:
(1929-1970) US writer and editor, a Radcliffe graduate and social activist who lived in Paris for several years before returning to New York to become an associate editor of Esquire magazine (see Slicks). Her one sf story is the frequently anthologized "The Tunnel Ahead" (November 1961 F&SF), reminiscent in some ways of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" (26 June 1948 The New Yorker). In a overcrowded, Dystopian future when the US population has reached one billion, a family returning to Manhattan (see New York) from the crowded beaches must drive through an 8500 foot tunnel – the only way into or out of the city. At random intervals some ten times per week, the tunnel is sealed off and the occupants of the 700-odd trapped vehicles are gassed to help reduce Overpopulation; nevertheless this risk offers city-dwellers their only excitement in life. Glaser also contributed nonfiction to Esquire, but published no other fiction. A short film adaptation of "The Tunnel Ahead" directed by André Øvredal, who made Trollhunter (2010), is in post-production in Norway.
It was the answer to 60s short story, robot cars travel through a tunnel, occupants are liquefied and Looking for story about population control via beach vacation, and accepted for the latter one.
answered Aug 27 at 0:43
FuzzyBoots
81k10246390
edited Aug 27 at 3:29
answered Aug 27 at 0:43
FuzzyBoots
81k10246390
answered Aug 27 at 0:43
FuzzyBoots
81k10246390
answered Aug 27 at 0:43
FuzzyBoots
81k10246390
81k10246390
As far as I can tell, the answer was accepted only for the second of the two old questions you linked to.
– user14111
Aug 27 at 2:29
@user14111: You're right. It's the better answer, though. :-P
– FuzzyBoots
Aug 27 at 3:28
add a comment |Â
As far as I can tell, the answer was accepted only for the second of the two old questions you linked to.
– user14111
Aug 27 at 2:29
@user14111: You're right. It's the better answer, though. :-P
– FuzzyBoots
Aug 27 at 3:28
As far as I can tell, the answer was accepted only for the second of the two old questions you linked to.
– user14111
Aug 27 at 2:29
As far as I can tell, the answer was accepted only for the second of the two old questions you linked to.
– user14111
Aug 27 at 2:29
@user14111: You're right. It's the better answer, though. :-P
– FuzzyBoots
Aug 27 at 3:28
@user14111: You're right. It's the better answer, though. :-P
– FuzzyBoots
Aug 27 at 3:28
add a comment |Â
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possibly the same as scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34151/…
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