- Mass Market Paperback: 186 pages
- Publisher: Bantam (Aug 1 1984)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0553247948
- ISBN-13: 978-0553247947
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
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Four men and a woman are reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, sent in a miniaturized atomic sub through a dying man's carotid artery to destroy a blood clot in his brain. If they fail, the entire world will be doomed. Reissue.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Sci-Fi Classic,
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This review is from: Fantastic Voyage (Mass Market Paperback)
A Sci-Fi ClassicWith the ominous "other side" on the rise a key scientist defects. In a last-ditch effort to prevent the defection, they ram a car into his vehicle, causing little injury but injuring his head in the process. In order to save him, our protagonists must go inside his body (shrunken down to the size of a virus) and remove the blood clot from his brain. Unfortunately, all is not what it seems and a series of accidents seems just a little to coincidental. Is there a trader among them? Asimov's Fantastic Voyage is a spectacular tale of a trip through the human body. Clearly the research has been done, and the book literally takes you on a trip through biology. A must read for Sci-Fi Addicts!
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Honey, I shrunk the scientists!,
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This review is from: Fantastic Voyage (Mass Market Paperback)
For sheer creativity, Asimov's "Fantastic Voyage" is just that--fantastic. Sadly, the Master was not a master of writing technique and this novel is uneven, especially in character development. Still, the idea of shrinking a spaceship with lasers and then injecting it into a body to cure a man of an inoperable blood clot is groundbreaking science fiction, years ahead of nanotechnology. A fun read, if not the best of Asimov.
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The name says it all.,
By sporkdude "sporkdude" (San Jose, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fantastic Voyage (Mass Market Paperback)
books when I was a kid,except for this one. The thought of miniaturizing one's self and going into a body in order to save it seemed lame and contrived. Because of this, I avoided this book for the longest time. Finally, I gave in and gave it a chance. It was worth it.The book has some flaws. The flow of the book is not very fluid. It's somewhat abrupt and I was forced to re-read a few paragraphs, especially in the beginning. Even though the level of detail is great, it sometimes became too much and I was bogged down with a cell structure instead of concentrating on the action. That said, the rest of the book is amazing. Asimov does a great job explaining how miniaturization works, and develops an interesting scenario involving wars, weapons, spies, and scientists in which such a procedure was neccesary under a specific time frame. The characters themselves are not truly developed, but instead are used to focus and contribute to the action. A major plus indeed. Asimov seems to weave a story where the human body turns out to be a major battlefield. A place where blood flow causes havoc and where white blood cells are monsters. He transports the reader into a new dimension where the mundane suddenly becomes catostrophic. With this, and his knowledge of the human body, he make a great action and suspense novel. This is a short read and gets to the point. Asimov wanted to write a great tale involving action and biology, and it is well done.
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