In fact, if his situation irritates him at first, it's mainly since he becomes smaller than his wife - he feels more like a boy than a man.

June 22, 2019 This book is just an example of how good Matheson really is. By being reduced to such a little size, he now has to think, something which he wasn't used to; predictably, it makes him uncomfortable. Once you tire of the protagonist bemoaning his fate (and you will tire of it) there is little to make you keep reading, except hope for an interesting resolution. Once you tire of the protagonist bemoaning his fate (and you will tire of it) there is little to make you keep reading, except hope for an interesting resolution. One of the best s-f flicks of the 1950s. The machine learned model takes into account factors including: the age of a review, helpfulness votes by customers and whether the reviews are from verified purchases.This page works best with JavaScript.

I enjoyed this book.

February 12, 2020 Works like I Am Legend, and What Dreams May Come(that rare case where the movie and book are both masterpieces) are other examples of Matheson's skill as a storyteller.

The additional stories included in the Tor edition of The Shrinking Man are equally brillant with Mantage and Duel coming to mind immediately. Disabling it will result in some disabled or missing features.

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The Incredible Shrinking Man is definitely a film designed to appeal to thoughtful adult viewers, as well as pure escapism science fiction fans. Months later, he discovers that he appears to be shrinking. July 25, 2015

After a night of sleep, he wakes up in a whole new world which marks the next step of his voyage. October 29, 2019

Scott Carey is exposed to a one in a million chemical reaction (brought about by a mysterious sea-spray and being drenched in pesticides) and finds himself shrinking 1/7th of an inch every morning. The Incredible Shrinking Man is a 1957 American science fiction film directed by Jack Arnold based on Richard Matheson's 1956 novel The Shrinking Man.The film stars Grant Williams as Scott and Randy Stuart as Scott's wife Louise. He is happily married and loves his wife and daughter.

This was the first work of his to be made into a movie in 1957, The Incredible Shrinking Man (I guess they thought the original title, The Shrinking Man, was too credible?)

Original Score: 4/5

Original Score: 3/5 While the Scientific explanation is a little bit of a throwaway, and left me going `huh?' Original Score: 4/5 A moving, strangely pantheist assertion of what it really means to be alive.

This is his most straightforward science-fiction offering. "Five feet, five and a half inches," she said. This story spent too much time inside the main character's dumb, empty head, with his descent into self-pity being far worse than the stress and perils of growing ever smaller. But this story is ultimately redemptive, and once you read the end you will realize why. Select your address Less than one inch tall and the prisoner of his house's cave, the end seems near; but when the occasion of getting out arises, he can't resist and is lead by pure exhaltation, no longer afraid of death. February 3, 2005

Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances The other characters were flat and uninteresting.

With Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton. He was the Stephen King of the '50s and '60s!