While on a boating holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray. A few weeks later, following a series of medical examinations, he can no longer deny the extraordinary truth. Not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was. Scott Carey has begun to shrink. Richard Matheson's novel follows through its premise with remorseless logic, with Carey first attempting to continue some kind of normal life and later having left human contact behind, having to survive in a world where insects and spiders are giant adversaries. And even that is only a stage on his journey into the unknown.
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While on a boating holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray. A few weeks later, following a series of medical examinations, he can no longer deny the extraordinary truth. Not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was. Scott Carey has begun to shrink. Richard Matheson's novel follows through its premise with remorseless logic, with Carey first attempting to continue some kind of normal life and later having left human contact behind, having to survive in a world where insects and spiders are giant adversaries. And even that is only a stage on his journey into the unknown.
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Richard Matheson (1926 - ) Richard Matheson was born in 1926. He began publishing SF with his short story 'Born of Man and Woman' which appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1950. I Am Legend was published in 1954 and has been adapted to film three times. Matheson wrote the script for the film The Incredible Shrinking Man, an adaptation of his second SF novel The Shrinking Man (published in 1956). The film won a Hugo award in 1958. He wrote many screenplays (including The Fall of the House of Usher) as well as episodes of The Twilight Zone. He continued to write short stories and novels, some of which formed the basis for film scripts, including Duel, directed by Steven Spielberg in 1971. Further SF short stories were collected in The Shores of Space (1957) and Shock! (1961). His other novels include Hell House (1971) (filmed as The Legend of Hell House in 1973), Bid Time Return (1975), Earthbound (1982) and Journal of the Gun Years (1992). A film of his novel What Dreams May Come (1978) was released in 1998, starring Robin Williams. A collection of his stories from the 1950s and 1960s was released in 1989 as Richard Matheson: Collected Stories.
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Scott Carey, the main character of the book, is shrinking. Slowly, 1/7 of an inch each day, but irresistibly. And with each seventh of an inch new threads that tied him to normal life are torn and a new portion of horror, loneliness and desperation enters his life. Carey's thoughts, feelings and desires remain the same, but in the eyes of the entire world he gradually becomes first a small child, then a kind of living toy that lives in a dollhouse, talks to a doll and is treated even by his daughter in a way not greatly different from that she treats his interlocutor, and finally an insect whom no one even notices. In this book the unbearable sense of loneliness, of total estrangement from everyone and everything one loved or liked, the necessity to confront the entire world that at once becomes one's most bitter enemy, which are so vividly depicted in I am Legend, another novel by Richard Matheson, are shown in a new light. But whatever happens, however small he becomes, however desperately he tries to struggle for life, Scott Carey remains, nevertheless, a human. He finds in himself strength to confront face to face his greatest fear, the spider that became the bane of his insect-like life, and his wife always remains in his heart. The final chapters of the book show that however much of his size he has lost, he has lost nothing of what REALLY made him a human being. And whatever happens to him beyond what we misname zero, we can be sure that he will face it all like a man should do.
Von Lisa
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A very good read. The suspense holds through the entire novel, because you are always wondering how the next "world" will be in which the main character finds himself. For every new smaller size there is a new universe with new dangers ... be it cats or spiders. Very recommendable.
Von Gerd Dürner
Format:Taschenbuch
Man muss wohl kaum noch viele Worte verlieren über Matheson als Autor oder über eines seiner bekanntesten Werke: "Die seltsame Geschichte des Mr C."
Matheson ist ein Meister seiner Zunft der es geschafft hat sich über die Gemeinde der Science Fiction und Horror Leserschaft hinaus einen Namen zu schaffen, und in der vorliegenden Ausgabe präsentiert uns Tor books nicht nur die SF Novelle "The Incredible Shrinking Man" sondern darüberhinaus noch eine Sammlung von neun seiner Kurzgeschichten, darunter u.a. die Kürzlich als "The Box" neu Verfilmte story "Button, Button", abgerundet wird das ganze durch ein großartiges Donato Giancola cover.
Buch Inhalt:
"The Incredible Shrinking Man" (200 page novel)
Stories
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (Twilight Zone episode)
"The Test"
"The Holiday Man"
"Mantage"
"The Distributor"
"By appointment only"
"Button, button" (Twilight Zone episode, "The Box" film)
"Duel" (Die Story zu Steven Spielbergs debut Film)
"Shoofly"
Matheson ist ein Meister seiner Zunft der es geschafft hat sich über die Gemeinde der Science Fiction und Horror Leserschaft hinaus einen Namen zu schaffen, und in der vorliegenden Ausgabe präsentiert uns Tor books nicht nur die SF Novelle "The Incredible Shrinking Man" sondern darüberhinaus noch eine Sammlung von neun seiner Kurzgeschichten, darunter u.a. die Kürzlich als "The Box" neu Verfilmte story "Button, Button", abgerundet wird das ganze durch ein großartiges Donato Giancola cover.
Buch Inhalt:
"The Incredible Shrinking Man" (200 page novel)
Stories
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (Twilight Zone episode)
"The Test"
"The Holiday Man"
"Mantage"
"The Distributor"
"By appointment only"
"Button, button" (Twilight Zone episode, "The Box" film)
"Duel" (Die Story zu Steven Spielbergs debut Film)
"Shoofly"
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Weak horror, weak science fiction, hardly a classic.
Isaac Asimov's Fantastic Voyage II is a much better treatment of the miniaturization theme, for hard science fiction content and characterization. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Oktober 1999 von Kyle Jones
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Classic sci-fi adventure
What can I say. This is one of the great science fiction books of all time. Not only that, it's scarier than anything Stephen King ever wrote and as exciting an adventure story... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 22. Mai 1998 veröffentlicht
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