Before Tomorrowland by Jeff Jensen — Read

EARHART TUMBLED out of the copper pod gagging, both desperate for something cold and sweet to drink and desperate to throw up everything in her stomach at the same time. Such was the effect on the human body of traveling by wire transfer, Plus Ultra's highly unreliable and temperamental private teleportation system. The experience of being transmuted into pure energy and transported over telephone landlines was so profoundly unpleasant, most members of Plus Ultra didn't use it unless emergency demanded. Earhart abhorred the technology. In her tempered point of view, she considered it a violation of nature, an affront to God, and just plain not fun.

But it was an emergency.