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Summary: I Don't Know, I Might Be Crazy...
Review: A Great Book!
It pulls you in, and you aren't rescued till it's done!-ACooper
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Summary: A Perfect Story
Review: A Sci-Fi Classic With 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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Summary: Sci-Fi Classic
Review: A Sci-Fi Classic With 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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Summary: Fantastic Voyage: Microcosm
Review: Although I haven't really read this Fantastic Voyage, I've read Microcosm by Kevin J. Anderson. For some reason the book isn't on this site but it is part of the Fantastic Voyage series. Instead of going into the body of a human, the crew must travel into the body of an alien. It's a fantastic book. MUST READ!
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Summary: Simply Horrible
Review: Before you ask, yes I did give this book a chance. I read it all the way through, and I am a fan of science fiction--so there. This book is very very boring. The characters are horribly developed, and the story line is very predictable. There is very little suspense, either. On the plus side, it is imaginative. I can't take that away from this book. Though the minitiarization thing has been done and redone, it is original for its age.
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Summary: The name says it all.
Review: 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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Summary: The name says it all.
Review: 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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Summary: Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov
Review: Fantastic Voyage is an excellant Sci-Fi about 5 people who are "miniaturized" along with a submarine and injected into the body of a dying man. Their mission:to find and destroy a deadly brain clot before time runs out. The fate of the world rests in the palm of their hands. These people, 4 men and 1 woman, run into many glitches throughout their mission, but I won't tell you because you should READ IT YOURSELF!!!!
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Summary: One of the best Sci-Fi books I have ever read!!
Review: Fantastic Voyage is one of the best books by Issac Asimov. The author goes really deep down and gets the feeling of the characters and brings them out as if they were writing it them selves. The story is about four men and one women who have been miniturized to the size of a germ ot destroy a blood clot in the mind of a very intelligent man who holds the secret to allow miniturization last for ever, but they must destroy the clot within one houror they will deminiturize in his body that will kill him, and once he is dead the secret will be lost for ever. Read the book to find out what happens to the man and the five humans who are in his body.
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Summary: The Mini Adventure
Review: Fantastic Voyage is really a fantastic voyage. The book starts with a mysterious man on a plasma plane, heading towards some secret destination. Then General Carter and Colonel Reid is introduced. They are the directors of a mission, to welcome a man of great importance. Then Dr. Michaels and Dr. Duval and his assistant Mrs. Cora Peterson is introduced as high, professional doctors. Then the book talks about Charles Grant, an old friend of this mysterious important person. As the scene turns to the airport, Captain Owens is introduced as another good friend of this mysterious person. Finally, the plasma plane lands and the important person, now called Benes, greets Captain Owens. They go into a limousine headed towards headquarters but on the way, a kamikaze car slams into the limousine and injures Benes. There is a blood clot forming in his brain and surgery is impossible to perform because the clot is inside the brain. Therefore, the only way to help Benes is to go into his body using a miniatuized submarine. A crew is chosen, Dr. Michaels, Dr. Duval, Cora Peterson, Capt. Owens, and Grant to get into Bene's bloodstream to the clot to destroy it. Along the way, a series of misfortunes happen and a enemy agent is suspected. First, a mishandled laser gun, then, the air tank leaks, afterwards, many close to death encounters. However, inside the submarine Proteus, relationships develop and new characteristics about each person is discovered. Finally, the mission is a success and Benes is saved. I was first given the book by my English teacher as a book project. She wanted us to read the book, write questions about the book, find significant paragraphs in the book, locate new and difficult words, and illustrate interesting parts of the book as our book project. Later, she would want us to do commercials and advertise the book to other students inthe class, convincing them of why the book I read was the book to read and buy. At first, I found the book very boring and uninteresting, but for a good grade, I read on. Later, the book started becoming more and more exciting, more action, less talk. At the end, I was hooked on the book and I reread the whole book again. My favorite part was when the crew was in the process of miniaturization. It was interesting to learn and see how the submarine is shrunk and how the crew reacts to the new experience of shrinking. The process is long and difficult. First, the crew enters the ship and a big machine fires a laser beam at the sub. The ship shrinks to the size of a speck of dust. Then the sub is picked up, ever so carfully and lowered micrometer by micrometer at a time into a saline container. Then miniaturization continues until the large tank is the size of a bottle. Then a hypodermic needle is inserted into the ampule and the ship is injected into Benes' neck. A very interesting book and I really enjoyed the adventure of the mini people.
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