Fantastic Voyage
by Isaac Asimov
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Read in April, 2008
Fantastic Voyage is a fantastic read! The plot: two sides locked in a escalating stalemate (think cold war)where miniaturization is the latest technology. A scientist with the ability to break the stalemate defects from the Other Side. Before he can be delivered safely into allied hands, however, he his injured in an assasination attempt that leaves him on the brink of death. Thus begins the fantastic voyage of 4 scientists, doctors, and 1 government agent to try and save this man and discov...more
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Read in September, 2007
The story is truly fantastic. I mean that in the worst way. As in fantastically unrealistic. But it was there on my dad's bookshelf so I figured I'd read it. And Isaac's prose is actually pretty good, the passages about the science of the body and so forth. Which makes sense sense because Asmov is a biochemist afterall. Mostly the book is pretty middle school but it still has some good humor in it too. And the antagonist is a somewhat sophisticated character, not all evil but rather actin...more
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Five people in a submarine are miniaturized and injected into a human being on the surgery table. Their goal is to reach the brain and break up a potentially fatal blood clot. They must do the job and leave the man's body in sixty minutes or less, after which they will return to normal size. This is actually a novelization of the movie screenplay. The movie is lots of fun and the science was cutting edge for 1966.
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I learned that if you get a blood clot in your brain...and you're important enough...they'll miniaturize scientists to travel through your body and zap the thing.
Unfortch, not everybody survives the procedure (white blood cells: which enspookifies Asimov's AIDS-related death)...and there's always that pesky T-Minus-Something countdown until the miniaturization wears off edge-of-your-seat insanity.
Unfortch, not everybody survives the procedure (white blood cells: which enspookifies Asimov's AIDS-related death)...and there's always that pesky T-Minus-Something countdown until the miniaturization wears off edge-of-your-seat insanity.
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The movie is pretty good for the time it was made. In fact, this book is based on the movie which was based on a short story so…Watch the movie! The book is okay but it kind of drags along a bit and seems to rely on the fact that you have most likely seen the movie.
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Read in June, 2008
Asimov based this novel on the screenplay to the movie. He was likely constrained and therefore it is not his best effort. The science is poorly developed as is his famous logic play.
The sequel to this book - Destination brain - makes for a much better read.
The sequel to this book - Destination brain - makes for a much better read.
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Read in July, 1974
I discovered this on a bookshelf at home when I was a child and was immediately caught up in it. I didn't really understand all of it back then but it still captivated my imagination and helped create a lifelong interest in science fiction.
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Read in March, 1997
recommends it for:
science*
loved 'Inner Space' starring Dennis Quaid when I was little, loved the movie based on the book (watched it in HS), so read the book and love it...what a great idea and now we have cameras in pill form that really do all that.
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Forget the movie with Raquel Welch--this book is so much better. Scientists invent a teeny tiny ship that can travel inside the bloodstream...gosh, do you think something might go awry?
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I liked this book well enough to keep it when I culled out my library a few years back, but on rereading it a few months back I was quite disappointed in it. Very predictable.
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I think it was written at the same time or after the movie. I liked the second one better, probably because Asimov came up with the plot.
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Read in November, 2007
I can't say I didn't like it, because I did, but it read a lot like a lame attempt to teach about human anatomy to suckers.
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recommends it for:
Anyone who appreciates reading light literature from a major mind.
Isaac Asimov was the perfect twentieth-century Renaissance man. I love the imaginativeness of this book.
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A lot of fun, this book -- it's been a while, but it was perfect middle school Asimov at the time.
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A great premise... intentionally or unintentionally parodied in the film "Inner Space."
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Read in July, 1991
I loved science fiction in jr. high, still do, but don't read it as much.
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Read in April, 2008
recommends it for:
Young readers
Great imagination! Makes you want to be a scientist. Or a spy!
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Read in January, 1976
A truly brilliant science fiction novel...
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