dazzler
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Post by dazzler on May 24, 2014 13:13:25 GMT
Hi all,
Does anyone know of any books about people that are miniturized?
I have read Micro by Michael Crichton, the Lyndsey Gutteridge cold war trilogy & The micronauts trilogy by Gordon Williams.
But i was wondering if there are any others like these. (I have only been able to find childrens books so far...)
Thanks!!!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on May 24, 2014 13:15:42 GMT
Fantastic Voyage Asimov is the classic. Tarzan and the Ant men where our hero gets miniaturized. There are loads of horror shorts on this theme
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 24, 2014 15:36:08 GMT
Tabitha King, SMALL WORLD (1981).
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Post by Dr Strange on May 24, 2014 15:50:33 GMT
Richard Matheson - The Shrinking Man (1956)
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 24, 2014 15:56:12 GMT
I understood the challenge to be to come up with really obscure ones.
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Post by Dr Strange on May 24, 2014 16:29:45 GMT
I understood the challenge to be to come up with really obscure ones. No - that road leads to something called SW (shrunken women) fiction. I ain't going there. |
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Post by ramseycampbell on May 26, 2014 11:17:17 GMT
Only a short story, I'm afraid, but Fred Pohl's "The Tunnel under the World" is something of a classic.
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dazzler
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Post by dazzler on Jun 15, 2014 17:08:31 GMT
Thanks for the help everyone
x
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Post by bobby on May 30, 2015 21:24:56 GMT
This is just a short story, but the book has been marked down to only $4.95: The Miniature Wife and Other Stories
(If short stories are acceptable to you, I can list some pulp stories, mostly from the Ziff-Davis pulps Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures, but I can't guarantee that all of them are good.) |
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junkmonkey
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Post by junkmonkey on Oct 31, 2015 23:57:22 GMT
SPOILER
Colin Kapp's SF novel Manalone.
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dazzler
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Post by dazzler on Nov 4, 2015 17:06:16 GMT
Hi Bobby, if it's not too much trouble could you let me know some titles is the short stories.
many thanks!!
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dazzler
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Post by dazzler on Nov 4, 2015 17:08:44 GMT
Oh yeah, I've just read Infinity Drake The Sons of Scarlatti by John McNally. Excellent!!
thanks Junkmonkey.
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Chuck_G
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Post by Chuck_G on Nov 4, 2015 19:07:30 GMT
If you like old school sci fi adventure there is also 'Submicroscopic' and 'Awlo of Ulm' both short stories by SP Meek. The only place I know they have been reprinted is in Asimov's Before The Golden Age.
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Post by bobby on Nov 5, 2015 1:56:38 GMT
Hi Bobby, if it's not too much trouble could you let me know some titles is the short stories. many thanks!! Robert Bloch-"It's A Small World"- Amazing Stories, March 1944; reprinted in Volume 2 of The Lost Bloch (a signed limited edition), 2000. (Among other things, a shrunken woman gets tied to the tracks of an electric train set. She also gets hung on a Christmas tree, wearing nothing but the ribbon she's hanging from.)  Paul W. Fairman-"The Girl Who Loved Death"- Amazing Stories, September 1952; recently reprinted as a "double" paperback with "Slave Planet" by Laurence M. Janifer. (The people get shrunken to about 2 feet tall in this story.)  Gilbert Rae Sonbergh-"Laboratory of the Mighty Mites"- Amazing Stories, June 1943. (The cover illustration giving away that it's a shrinking story kind of spoils the premise of this story.)  William Brengle-"Return to Lilliput"- Fantastic Adventures, May 1943. (A good premise (the Lilliputians can now shrink "giants" down to their size), but not very well-written. This story is also full of slurs against the Japanese.)  Dwight V. Swain-"Drummers of Daugavo"- Fantastic Adventures, March 1943. (Shrinking is a minor part of this story, which is mostly a "Get those Nazis!" adventure story.)  Murray Leinster-"Fury From Lilliput"- Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1949. (A pretty dull story that keeps grinding to a screeching halt to give scientific explanations for stuff like the different effects of gravity on shrunken people.)  |
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Post by dem bones on Nov 5, 2015 10:28:43 GMT
Hi Bobby, if it's not too much trouble could you let me know some titles is the short stories. many thanks!! Robert Bloch-"It's A Small World"- Amazing Stories, March 1944; reprinted in Volume 2 of The Lost Bloch (a signed limited edition), 2000. (Among other things, a shrunken woman gets tied to the tracks of an electric train set. She also gets hung on a Christmas tree, wearing nothing but the ribbon she's hanging from.) That Bloch story sounds particularly good. Another suggestion, Edmond Hamilton - Pygmy Island ( Weird Tales, Aug. 1930) and various 'Not At Night's' like this Arrow selection. |
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