A miniature submarine is inserted into the body of a scientist as a last-ditch attempt at emergency surgery.

Ok, so you have to get past the 1960s mindset and some of the science is dated...but it's still a fascinating concept. Advances in microsurgery and endoscopy have made this story less plausible - why would you need to go to such extremes? - but those glimpses inside our own bodies haven't really lost their appeal...and the band of intrepid explorers facing a strange new world is an archetype that isn't likely to fade away any time soon.

Other copies on my BookCrossing shelf: 10040872 • 15149427

Based on a screenplay by Harry Kleiner. Adaptation by David Duncan. Based on a story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby.

Picked up at the January Friends of the Library booksale. (Larger photo here - after following link, click on image to zoom.)

To be released during the Great Aloha Run Expo, February 12-14. We'll see if it gets claimed, or if it comes back home again.

Wild released for Davros-10's Science Fiction Challenge, msrubble's 2016 movie challenge, and AlterEgoZoe's Leap into the Wild Challenge.

(Over the course of three days, I took 6 CD audiobooks, 18 cassette audiobooks, and 45 other books to the Great Aloha Run Health & Fitness Expo and left them at the end of the table in our booth. At the end of the last day, the only things left were 3 of the cassette audiobooks. Now let's see if I get any journal entries!)

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I'm so glad you've found this book!

Won't you please make a journal entry to let the book's previous readers know that it's safely in your hands? How did you find it? What did you think of it? What are you going to do with it next?

It's now your book, for you to do with as you please: keep it, pass it to a friend, or maybe even leave it where someone else can find it!

If you've ever wondered where your books go after they leave your hands, join BookCrossing and you may find out: you'll be able to follow the further adventures of your books as new readers make journal entries - sometimes from surprisingly far-flung locations.

(Think of it like Where's George for books...or a little like geocaching - you can follow the book's journey every time someone makes a new entry. Some BookCrossers even leave books *in* geocaches!)

BookCrossing: making the whole world a library!