Odin88
06-08-2008, 01:13 PM
Always loved that genre. Maybe because its a fantasy of mine to build a fucikin starship and leave all these niggers behind....:lol
When I was in the joint I found this collection of stories from the 20's 30's and 40's called, I believe, "The Golden Age of Science Fiction" edited by Isaac Asimov. They were all fantastic stories but one has stayed with me.
It was callled 'Microscopic'. It begins with two scientists in a lab. One of them has created a serum which will shrink anything. He wants to try it on something and stabs the needle into his assistant when his back is turned. he begins to shrink....
He gets smaller and smaller and hops up on the table. Eventually he is so small he is being chased by bacteria on the surface. Smaller and smaller he eventually begins to fall through the individual molecules of the table. Soon he is at the atomic level.... smaller and smaller.
Eventually he sees a flash- and emerges into an entire universe- galaxies, planets. stars.... And now he is a colosuss- he is thousands of miles tall, and yet he keeps shrinking until he comes to a planet. He lands on the surface, now a hundred miles tall, and still shrinking. He eventually shrinks down to normal height on this strange world on a beach and keeps shrinking. Eventually he falls between the grains of sand on the beach and keeps shrinking...
This happen at least 6 or 7 times... shrinking down past atomic level and emerging into a new universe and coming to a planet with experiences with the inhabitants...
The last planet he comes to, and this is the creepy ending to the story......is Earth. I loved the unspoken symbolism of that. I wish I could find that again somewhere, but to no avail. Even the library doesn't have it. Anyway, thought I would share that.
When I was in the joint I found this collection of stories from the 20's 30's and 40's called, I believe, "The Golden Age of Science Fiction" edited by Isaac Asimov. They were all fantastic stories but one has stayed with me.
It was callled 'Microscopic'. It begins with two scientists in a lab. One of them has created a serum which will shrink anything. He wants to try it on something and stabs the needle into his assistant when his back is turned. he begins to shrink....
He gets smaller and smaller and hops up on the table. Eventually he is so small he is being chased by bacteria on the surface. Smaller and smaller he eventually begins to fall through the individual molecules of the table. Soon he is at the atomic level.... smaller and smaller.
Eventually he sees a flash- and emerges into an entire universe- galaxies, planets. stars.... And now he is a colosuss- he is thousands of miles tall, and yet he keeps shrinking until he comes to a planet. He lands on the surface, now a hundred miles tall, and still shrinking. He eventually shrinks down to normal height on this strange world on a beach and keeps shrinking. Eventually he falls between the grains of sand on the beach and keeps shrinking...
This happen at least 6 or 7 times... shrinking down past atomic level and emerging into a new universe and coming to a planet with experiences with the inhabitants...
The last planet he comes to, and this is the creepy ending to the story......is Earth. I loved the unspoken symbolism of that. I wish I could find that again somewhere, but to no avail. Even the library doesn't have it. Anyway, thought I would share that.