![]() Once things get going though, it's quite an enjoying ride. Overall, the first third or so (before they actually shrink or even know what's going on) eis boring and stilted to the extreme. But I guess that's what they needed for the film? So it goes. ![]() ![]() There's a romance subplot, which is about as subtle as a brick to the face and sexist as heck. But what's going to go wrong first? Well that's the story! Will they make it out and save the day? Of course. Of course things go wrong (wouldn't be much of a book otherwise) and they end up on a rather circuitous route. Otherwise, the entire plot is adventure driven: a (rather oddball) team must used a mostly untested technology to shrink down small enough to fit into a human bloodstream in order to remove a life threatening clot. I don't know enough ananotomy to know if anything in particular is wrong, but it makes me want to know *more*, which I think is pretty much the entire point of the thing. Based on a short by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby, Asimov only got involved in the novelization-and then only if he was given leave to do the science properly. Which is amusing, given that unlike what I'd guessed, in this case the movie actually game first. It's pretty much what I remember from other Asimov novels, although it's been a while. ![]() On one hand, it's 1960s scifi in a nutshell, full of tensions about the 'Other Side' (obvious enough), weird but fascinating scientific gadgets and ideas, sexism, and with odd pacing and dialog. ![]()
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