Fantastic Voyage

Book Details

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Author(s):

Isaac Asimov

First Pub:

1966

Genre(s):

Novelization; Science Fiction

First Read:

Unknown

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Subject(s):

Movie novels
Science fiction

Chapters:

See 18

1 - Plane

2 - Car

3 - Headquarters

4 - Briefing

5 - Submarine

6 - Miniaturization

7 - Submergence

8 - Entry

9 - Artery

10 - Heart

11 - Capillary

12 - Lung

13 - Pleura

14 - Lymphatic

15 - Ear

16 - Brain

17 - Clot

18 - Eye

Internal ID:

13772

Series:

Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain ->

Fantastic Voyage*

#1 of 2

Fantastic Voyage*

One novelization and one rewrite by Isaac Asimov to make it the way he would have written the original premis.

View this series in the book list

1) Fantastic Voyage
2) Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain

Copyright:

Dedication:

To
Marc and Marcia
who twisted my arm

First Sentence:

It was an old plane, a four-engine plasma jet that had been retired from active service, and it came in along a route that was neither economical nor particularly safe.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

The nurse ushered them out and Grant and Cora left, hand in warm hand, into a world that suddenly seemed to hold no terrors for them, but only the prospect of great joy.

Comments:

Comments may contain spoilers

This book is based on a screenplay by Harry Kleiner copyright © 1966 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
A sorter version was published in The Saturday Evening Post © 1966 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

Synopsis not on file
Extract not on file

Added: 11-Dec-2023

Last Updated: 11-Dec-2023

Publications

01-Nov-1966

Bantam Books

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Nov-1966

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$0.60

Pages*:

186

Catalog ID:

H3177

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Internal ID:

33414

Publisher:

Bantam Books

ISBN:

Unknown

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

A BOLD JOURNEY INTO A NEW DIMENSION
OF ENTERTAINMENT AND EXCITEMENT!

Four men and one woman reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, boarding a miniturized atomic sub and being injected into a dying man's carotid artery. Fighting their way past giant antibodies, passing through the heart itself, entering the inner ear where even the slightest sound would destroy them, battling relentlessly into the cranium. Their objective... to reach a blood clot and destroy it with the piercing rays of a laser gun. At stake... the fate of the entire world.

fantastic voyage
THE MOST INCREDIBLE
ADVENTURE OF OUR TIME!

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

A Bantam Book / published October 1966
2nd printing
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Author(s)

Isaac Asimov
Birth: 02 Jan 1920 Petrovichi, Russia
Death: 06 Apr 1992 New York, USA

Notes:

Contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion during a triple bypass heart surgery.

Awards

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