Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain - Hardcover
Doubleday: 1987. Leatherbound limited edition, in slip-case. SIGNED BY ASIMOV.
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Twenty-one years ago when the movie Fantastic Voyage was released, Asimov was hired to do the novelization. The book was successful but, to Asimov, not satisfying, for "I never felt it to be entirely mine." Now he has rewritten it his way, and it's good. The story concerns Albert Jonas Morrison, a 21st century neurophysicist, and otherwise an ordinary and unheroic man, who is kidnapped and taken to the Soviet Union. A major Soviet scientist, Pyotr Shapirov, is in an irreversible coma, and Morrison's special expertise could be of value. The Soviets believe that Morrison may be able to apply his controversial theories to retrieve vagrant thoughts that still may be floating in Shapirov's damaged brain and so provide clues to important work in which Shapirov was engaged. Morrison goes cold with fear because the plan calls for him to be miniaturizedalong with four Soviet scientiststo sub-molecular size, introducing them into Shapirov's body and, ultimately, into his brain. The snappish relationships between the scientists is wryly depicted, and the mission itself makes fascinating reading as both an actionadventure and an intellectually stimulating premise. BOMC featured selection.
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The uncharted territory of the human brain becomes a landscape fraught with danger for a team of scientists who set out to discover its secretsfrom the inside. Twenty years after the success of his original Fantastic Voyage, the prolific and always illuminating Asimov creates a new scenario for an old premise and fills it with sympathetic characters, unexpected plot twists, and a heavy dose of science-made-comprehensible. Highly recommended. BOMC and Quality Paperback Book Club featured alternates. JC
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0385243928
- ISBN 13 9780385243926
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages332
- IllustratorRon Miller
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Book Description Condition: Near fine. Ron Miller (illustrator). Signed limited first edition of this reboot of the story of miniaturized scientists venturing inside the human body - from the library of Hugo-nominated SF author and reviewer D. Douglas Fratz. Isaac Asimov reflects on his 1966 novel FANTASTIC VOYAGE - based on the film of the same name - in his introduction to this sequel of sorts: "I was never quite satisfied with the novel [.] I never felt it to be entirely mine." In FANTASTIC VOYAGE II, he makes the concept of miniaturization his own, placing much more emphasis on the scientific concepts behind the technology. D. Douglas Fratz founded the "energetic" (Clute and Nichols, 451) science fiction news and reviews journal THRUST in 1973, which was renamed QUANTUM in 1990. His writing, publishing, and reviews earned him 5 Hugo nominations over his career. 9.25'' x 6''. Original red leather binding with gilt lettering. Gilt edges. Blue endpapers. In original red leather slipcase. Color frontispiece. Original red ribbon marker. 332 pages. Signed by Asimov and numbered 377 of 450 to limitation page. Yellow printed slip with description of Fratz provenance laid in. Slipcase with a hint of shelfwear, tiny bump to front edge. Spine with small abrasion. Sharp and bright. Seller Inventory # 46037
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Ron Miller (illustrator). 1st Edition. Limited As New signed edition (# 375 of 450) of another Asimov classic. Purchased new and placed unread on a shelf until now. No dust jacket issued. Includes As New companion slipcase with #375 sticker on bottom as issued. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # ABE-1684549422020
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