L. Taylor Hansen 18 min read

The sole survivor of the much-discussed Undersea Tube disaster sets down his account, the tale of a wind-propelled transatlantic tunnel, and the Golden Cavern and City of the Dead it revealed.

L. Taylor Hansen's 1929 story is an imaginative hard-SF adventure. Vivid, speculative golden-age pulp. Read it for an inventive early-pulp yarn of a marvelous undersea transit tube and the catastrophe that strikes it, revealing lost wonders beneath the ocean floor, in a colorful tale of engineering and disaster.

In its time

Published in 1929, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

18 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Hans Waldemar Wessolowski