In case none of the responses you got are the book you're looking for, I'd
suggest either the "BookSleuth" forum at Abebooks.com (
http://forums.abebooks.com/abesleuthcom) or the "Stump the Bookseller"
feature at Loganberry Books (http://www.loganberrybooks.com/stump.html).
They solve these kinds of requests all the time.

-Kathleen

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Barbara Hass <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  Is this the story you need?    it can be downloaded at these sites.
>
> found by a web search using the terms
> "science fiction" "english channel"
>
> *The Time Saving Agency*<http://www.obooko.com/obooko_scifi/bookpages/scifi/scifi0012_timesavingagency_engela.php>
>  by Christina Engela
> Obooko site requires free registration. Transgender theme. *Time travel*wasn’t for the faint of heart. Things happen at a certain time in a certain
> way, which in a sense, is what it’s all about. If it didn’t, then things
> would be completely different. Johnathan Scrooby was extremely tense. His
> job at the Time Saving Agency was a tough one. Billions of lives depended on
> him not screwing up. Once, he’d screwed up in only a small way and people
> wore those little yellow smiley faces on t-shirts for decades afterwards.
> And that was just a small screw up.*Yesterday Napoleon managed to dig a tunnel
> across the English Channel, invaded London and everybody at the Agency
> ended up speaking French* for a while. Sorting that out had been…
> well,challenging. Mon dieu. Something smelled funny in the anals of
> History. Things were not as they were supposed to be ...
>
> http://online-novels.blogspot.com/2006/04/s-through-z.html
>
> orhttp://www.archive.org/details/TheTimeSavingAgency
>
> *Barbara Hass, retired librarian   --- SMILE *
>
>  In a message dated 10/12/2010 5:28:53 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>  Since many of you specialize in Obscuriana, I thought I would ask this
> group as a last resort to see if you might be able to shed some light on
> this odd request I got from the BFF that said:
>
> "Randy was talking to me the other day and mentioned a couple of books
> he'd love to read again. I've found the ones he knew the titles of, but one
> of them he said he read in junior high, he thought, and it was a story LIKE
> "Journey to the Center of the Earth" but in this story, there was an access
> through the english channel."
>
> For the record, Randy is about 62, so junior high would have been in the
> early 60s. Anybody have any ideas? Where is Barbara Hass when I need her
> (smile). This one just doesn't have enough meat for me to query, so I
> thought some of our bookish friends might know.
>
> Thanks!
>
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