“The Tunnel Ahead” first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1961 The floor of the topolino was full of sand. There was sand in Toni’s undershorts, too, and damp sand rubbing between his toes. Damn it, he thought, here they build you six-lane highways right on down to the ocean, a giant three-hundred car turntable to keep traffic moving over the beach…

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