Today I read “Fantastic Voyage”, an exciting novel adapted from a movie and written by Isaac Asimov. The story is well written, containing elements of both mystery and adventure, and I really enjoyed it. Basically, five people, each with different abilities, are miniaturized and injected into a very important man’s bloodstream in a miniaturized submarine, hoping that they can destroy a blood clot with a laser (also miniaturized). However, they encounter a variety of problems at every turn, and Grant, the agent running the mission, begins to suspect that one of the people is deliberately attempting to sabotage the mission, perhaps because the man they’re trying to save could provide valuable information to Grant’s side, as he was a very intelligent man who figured out how to miniaturize people indefinitely and may have explained how to do so to the other side (only referred to as “Their side” in the book), in which case they would lose the war without the information; meanwhile, if he hasn’t, they’ll win the war with the information, meaning that the defector, if there is one, has a very good reason for wanting to ruin the mission and make it take longer than the allotted hour, after which they’ll enlarge to their regular size and kill the person they’re inside. I liked the story because it was a great mystery (I didn’t know who the sabotageur was until the end, or if there even was one) and it involved a nice blend of action and adventure. I would rate it 9.8/10 and recommend it to anyone who likes science fiction, mystery, adventure, or Asimov novels in general.
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