Fantastic Voyage
- 210
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
- Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
- Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color
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Our view
“Fantastic Voyage” is an inventive adventure that sends a shrunken submarine crew through a man’s bloodstream to clear a clot in his brain. Isaac Asimov fills the journey with close-up detail of the body at work, the book’s real attraction. The dialogue feels dull to some readers by comparison, and a reader may wonder whether the science still holds. Just over two hundred pages long, it works for curious readers of any age.
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About the book
Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 American science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Harry Kleiner, based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby. The film is about a submarine crew which is shrunk to microscopic size and ventures into the body of injured scientist Dr. Jan Benes to repair damage to his brain. In adapting the story for his script, Kleiner added a Cold War element. The film starred Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence, and Arthur Kennedy.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.4 across 89 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 38% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.9 | 14 | 16% |
| Hardcover | 7.4 | 75 | 84% |
Frequently asked
How long is Fantastic Voyage?
It has 210 pages — shorter than 92% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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