"Fantastic Voyage" by Isaac Asimov. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. First edition. Jacket art by Dale Hennesy
Jan Benes, a brilliant refugee scientist, is the victim of an attempted assassination and lies in a coma with a potentially fatal blood clot in his brain. Locked in his mind is a secret of vital importance. The urgency of saving him is overwhelming, yet conventional surgery would inevitably destroy his mental powers if not precipitate his death.
The new secret process of miniaturization -- whereby a whole army could conceivably be placed in a matchbox and sent anywhere in the world -- offers a chance of saving Dr. Benes. In spite of the enormous hazards involved, the scientists in charge of the process decide to miniaturize a team of doctors and technicians with all their equipment, including a small submarine, and inject them into Benes's circulatory system to attack and destroy the blood clot from the inside.
American science fiction writer Isaac Asimov wrote this novelization based on an original story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby and on a screenplay by Harry Kleiner. Twentieth Century Fox released the movie version based on Kleiner's screenplay in 1966 and it starred Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien and Donald Pleasence.
"Fantastic Voyage" by Isaac Asimov. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. First edition. Jacket art by Dale Hennesy
Jan Benes, a brilliant refugee scientist, is the victim of an attempted assassination and lies in a coma with a potentially fatal blood clot in his brain. Locked in his mind is a secret of vital importance. The urgency of saving him is overwhelming, yet conventional surgery would inevitably destroy his mental powers if not precipitate his death.
The new secret process of miniaturization -- whereby a whole army could conceivably be placed in a matchbox and sent anywhere in the world -- offers a chance of saving Dr. Benes. In spite of the enormous hazards involved, the scientists in charge of the process decide to miniaturize a team of doctors and technicians with all their equipment, including a small submarine, and inject them into Benes's circulatory system to attack and destroy the blood clot from the inside.
American science fiction writer Isaac Asimov wrote this novelization based on an original story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby and on a screenplay by Harry Kleiner. Twentieth Century Fox released the movie version based on Kleiner's screenplay in 1966 and it starred Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien and Donald Pleasence.