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Or Fiction-L (http://webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html), a listserv of librarians who do this sort of readers advisory on a daily basis, too. 

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kathleen O'Hara 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 8:25 PM
  Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] Obscure Request


  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 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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