THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN
Book ID/图书代码： 03890013B64563
English Summary/英文概要： While on a boating holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray. A few weeks later, following a series of medical examinations, he can no longer deny the extraordinary truth. Not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was. Scott Carey has begun to shrink.
Richard Matheson’s novel follows through its premise with remorseless logic, with Carey first attempting to continue some kind of normal life and later having left human contact behind, having to survive in a world where insects and spiders are giant adversaries. And even that is only a stage on his journey into the unknown.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在一次划船旅行中，斯科特•卡里（Scott Carey）受到了放射性辐射。几周后，经过一系列医学检查，他不得不接受一个残酷的现实：不仅他的体重在减轻，连身高也在锐减。他正在萎缩。
理查德•曼森（Richard Matheson）的小说一向是以残酷的逻辑为前提，如卡里在接受自己的身体状态以后一开始一直在尝试过正常的生活，到最后不得不舍弃人类世界，在昆虫和蜘蛛满地的对手如云的世界里生存。即便是那样，还不知道他的命运到底走向何方？(XJJ)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 理查德•曼森(Richard Matheson)生于1926年，1950年凭借其发表在科幻杂志上的短篇小说《生儿育女》（’Born of Man and Woman’ ）开始在科幻界崭露头角。1954年发表了《我是传奇》（I Am Legend），后被3次改编为电影剧本。本书是他1956年的作品，也是改编为电影的第二部大作，更是亲自动手撰写剧本。该电影获得了1958年的雨果奖。他写过很多剧本，也从没放弃过短篇小说和长篇小说的创作，有些电影剧本的灵感还是来源于他的小说呢，包括斯皮尔伯格1971年执导的《飞轮喋血》（Duel）。他的作品还有很多，电影作品也是，比如根据他的小说改编而成的由罗宾威廉姆斯主演的《美梦成真》（What Dreams May Come），于1998年正式上映。他的一系列作品（20世纪50、60年代）被合成辑于1989年发行。Richard Matheson was born in 1926. He began publishing SF with his short story ’Born of Man and Woman’ which appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1950. I Am Legend was published in 1954 and has been adapted to film three times. Matheson wrote the script for the film The Incredible Shrinking Man, an adaptation of his second SF novel The Shrinking Man (published in 1956). The film won a Hugo award in 1958. He wrote many screenplays (including The Fall of the House of Usher) as well as episodes of The Twilight Zone. He continued to write short stories and novels, some of which formed the basis for film scripts, including Duel, directed by Steven Spielberg in 1971. Further SF short stories were collected in The Shores of Space (1957) and Shock! (1961). His other novels include Hell House (1971) (filmed as The Legend of Hell House in 1973), Bid Time Return (1975), Earthbound (1982) and Journal of the Gun Years (1992). A film of his novel What Dreams May Come (1978) was released in 1998, starring Robin Williams. A collection of his stories from the 1950s and 1960s was released in 1989 as Richard Matheson: Collected Stories.
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