Fantastic Voyage: Microcosm - Softcover

Anderson, Kevin J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451409434 ISBN 13: 9780451409430

Publisher: Onyx, 2001

Synopsis

After an unidentified flying object is shot down by Russian MiG fighters, a team of scientists from Project Proteus and their ship are reduced to a size smaller than a human cell and sent to penetrate the surface of the mysterious object and uncover its secrets.

About this title

About the Author:

Kevin J. Anderson is the author of the Star Wars: Jedi Academy trilogy, the Star Wars novel, Darksaber, and the comic series The Sith War for Dark Horse comics and the science fiction novel Blindfold. He has edited several Star Wars anthologies, including Tales From The Mos Eisley Cantina. He is a New York Times bestselling author and lives in California with his wife, Rebecca Moesta.

From Publishers Weekly:

Anderson's sizzling sci-fi thriller resurrects the technology of miniaturization introduced in the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage. This time, however, the body through which shrunken crew members maneuver is alien rather than human. When Russian MiG fighters shoot down an unidentified flying object, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vasili Garamov decides to ship the surviving pod to a group of scientists secluded in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. Garamov is a silent partner in Project Proteus, a joint U.S.-Russian operation dedicated to the process of miniaturization, and this new specimen could be just what the organization needs to prove the technology to the rest of the world. At project headquarters, a witty and intelligently portrayed cast of characters oversees and participates in the miniaturization process that leaves an entire vessel and its crew smaller than a human cell and ready to explore the gray-skinned alien lying dormant inside the pod. In a startling and, frankly, far-fetched turn of events, the explorers discover information about the alien that jeopardizes the expedition and the future of humanity. Anderson (The Gorn Crisis, etc.) writes with humor, sensitivity and clarity. Casual sci-fi fans as well as newcomers to the genre will enjoy this well-paced, energetic narrative.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Onyx
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0451409434
• ISBN 13: 9780451409430
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352