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| Original Title: | Fantastic Voyage |
| ISBN: | 0553275720 (ISBN13: 9780553275728) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Fantastic Voyage #1 |
| Characters: | Cora, Grant McCarthy |
Isaac Asimov
Paperback | Pages: 208 pages Rating: 3.91 | 24263 Users | 445 Reviews
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Don’t blame ME for my gushing Five Stars. They come from my sixteen-year-old self!Yeah, you got THAT right. I had a rather sequestered childhood - just me and my Books and my Beatles. And Mom and Dad and Sis and Bro.
Sure, I dated... but my intense shyness obviated anything serious developing.
And besides, it was only a mere three years earlier that Time Magazine had shocked us sleepers by trumpeting something called the Sexual Revolution!
You know, Kids, in 1966 the world was still half-asleep - thank goodness.
And gunshots woulda been summarily dismissed as backfires. Crime? In some places. But not much wild stuff in Tory-blue Ontario the Good.
You had to have been there to have believed it, kids.
We couldn’t even wear jeans in school - and skirts could be not longer than an inch above the knee - and NO SMOKING within high school precincts.
But in 1966 we noticed things - like Raquel Welch in Fantastic Voyage!
My pals would stand around outside their lockers tracing figure eights with the heels of their hands...
Yep, we noticed. And around 1966, I noticed some girls in school bore a striking resemblance to Raquel, once I got my nose outta my books long enough!
And she CARRIED the whole film to Instant Fame for us.
When they had advertised the movie in our papers, my mom told me there was a book out too. I was confused and disappointed to learn Isaac Asimov had written it after the fact. But I read it first.
A few scant years later the same thing happened with the film 2001, though the book was more polished.
And like dominoes, my literary icons started to fall from their pedestals.
And that has continued unabated ever since then:
A fact that has sharpened any critical acumen I may possess, thank heaven.
Well...
Do you think Raquel had something to do with my maturing?
If you do, I’d agree with you.
She sure helped.
Identify Of Books Fantastic Voyage ( Fantastic Voyage #1)
| Title | : | Fantastic Voyage ( Fantastic Voyage #1) |
| Author | : | Isaac Asimov |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 208 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 1988 by Bantam (first published October 1966) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction |
Rating Of Books Fantastic Voyage ( Fantastic Voyage #1)
Ratings: 3.91 From 24263 Users | 445 ReviewsCriticism Of Books Fantastic Voyage ( Fantastic Voyage #1)
This story is well known, and has been copied/parodied many times on various tv shows and comic books. An interesting trivia fact I didn't know was that the movie is not based on the book. When the movie was coming out, they hired Isaac Asimov to write the novelization. Asimov resisted at first, and then eventually agreed. The book is set roughly in the cold war. An important defector is badly injured, and they desperately need to save his life. They gamble, shrinking a team and a new ship to goFun and short!
Using shrinking technology, a submarine is reduced to microscopic size in order to repair damage in a scientist's brain (and save the world). They encounter a whole array of obstacles related to their size.A nice idea, in some cases silly dialog and events.Some of the technology is very old fashioned in modern eyes.After reading the book, I found out that it was based on a Movie by the same name. Asimov was only asked to Novelize the screenplay.
The best female character Asimov drew was Raquel Welch, and that solely was in the movie version. Admittedly, "The Gods Themselves" is the sole exception: a fully-human Asimov female.
Is this where all the 90's cartoon episodes about shrinking down and going into someone else's body came from!? I have to read to find out.
Isaac Asimov agreed to write the novelization of Fantastic Voyage on the condition that he be allowed to make it as scientifically accurate as possible. He successfully achieves this, while preservingnay, magnifyingthe sexual tension between our hero, Hunk Heartthrob, and the Frigid Highly Professional but Properly Subordinate Beautiful Assistant to the Temperamental Genius. Moreover, Dr. Asimov sews up several glaring plot holes and answers many of the crucial questions the movie leaves open,
Dont blame ME for my gushing Five Stars. They come from my sixteen-year-old self! Yeah, you got THAT right. I had a rather sequestered childhood - just me and my Books and my Beatles. And Mom and Dad and Sis and Bro.Sure, I dated... but my intense shyness obviated anything serious developing. And besides, it was only a mere three years earlier that Time Magazine had shocked us sleepers by trumpeting something called the Sexual Revolution! You know, Kids, in 1966 the world was still half-asleep -
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