April Books 5) Inverted World, by Christopher Priest

[nwhyte]

I had of course read this many many years ago; it won the BSFA Award in 1974 and got a Hugo nomination (beaten by The Dispossessed, which is fair enough). I liked it back then, and I liked it again on re-reading. The core concept is that our protagnist and his people are involved in transporting their city, on rails, across a landscape of varied

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[deborah_c]

Last time I reread this, a few years back, I found myself a few days later at a very literary party. After discovering that I was literally struck dumb in the presence of Cory Doctorow and then Charlie Stross, I found myself talking to a very lovely lady, and her husband when he joined us, about our respective twins...

[alaimacerc]

According to The Internet, it's possible: Robertsport to Hui'an, or thereabouts. Vert tight squeeze between Suez and the Med, though...

Can't get any of the online Great Circle Mappers to work on my old, slow, and hot laptop. Though that's nothing to how old, slow and hot my brain would be if I tried to check the spherical trig myself...

[nwhyte]

Playing with Google Earth, it looked like a route from near Shanghai to the Sierra Leone/Liberia border might do it. But I don't know how accurately spherical Google Earth is, and like you I found that the online great circle checkers gave inconsistent results.