Asimov also wrote an essay discussing the science problems brought by the premise of the movie, as among others how to miniaturize the sub and its crew, to be able to see when wavelengths of visible light are larger than the eyes of the crew, and getting air from the lungs when molecules are not much smaller than the submarine.

And several years later he wrote a from-scratch 'remake'-slash-'sequel', Fantastic Voyage 2: Destination Brain, that attempted to clean up even more of the science and plot problems.

Asimov also added some scenes between Grant and Benes, as well as a minor subplot about infighting between the military and scientific factions within the CMDF. Michaels is less of a traitor, and more of an obsessed pacifist - he believes (not entirely unreasonably) that both sides are currently in balance with regard to miniaturization (*cough* mutually assured destruction *cough*), and either side having the advantage of unlimited shrinking could pressure the other side into shooting first before the new development can be used against them. Here, Grant is a bit of a detective, essentially figuring out who The Mole is before he reveals himself, via clues available to an attentive reader.

Besides correcting countless scientific errors, Asimov added several elements to the book that were absent in the movie. Adaptation Expansion: The novel, big time.Very often homaged or parodied - see 'Fantastic Voyage' Plot. The film also received a novelization by Isaac Asimov, as well as an Animated Adaptation.

Even further, an enemy agent is trying to stop them the protagonist Charles Grant (Boyd), who smuggled the scientist from behind the Iron Curtain, has to make sure the mission succeeds while not knowing who he can trust on the crew. miniaturization taskforce organizes an expedition to be shrunken to remove the clot from the inside, operating on it at the cellular level.īut for the same reason they need to save the scientist, they have a time limit to get out of the body (or they'll grow back to normal size while inside of it). Benes, wounded in an attack, is comatose and dying from a externally inoperable bloodclot, so the U.S. But the scientist Jan Benes (Jean Del Val) had discovered how to overcome the limit, and enemy agents will stop at nothing to prevent the secret from escaping from behind the Iron Curtain. A 1966 Science Fiction film, directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, and Donald Pleasence, about a shrinking machine used to send a mini submarine and its crew inside the body of a defecting scientist.ĭuring the Cold War, both the United States and ' The Other Side' have discovered the shrinking technology, which is limited in practicality because of how short-lived the effect is.

Fantastic voyage asimov