palmer (12/06/82)
Enough of this science fiction stuff, try reality?
When comet Kohoutek (sp?) passed by one year, there was
someone (in Arizona I think) who claimed that he was shrinking people
(voluntarily), so that they could fit onto an alien's spaceship before
the comet hit the earth (on Christmas, of course).
As you can see, we don't really need sf authors, pseudo-truth is
stranger than fiction.
David Palmercraig.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay@sri-unix (12/10/82)
From: Craig Stanfill <craig.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay> The list of shrinking people seems to be quite complete, except for the POOF gun in "Babes in Toyland." Not quite Science Fiction, but neither are many of the examples collected so far.
dietz%usc-cse@USC-ECL@sri-unix (12/10/82)
Fritz Leiber's "The Swords of Lankhmar" has Fahfrd (or the Grey Mouser?) shrink down to rat size. The extra mass was shed at the time of shrinking, leaving a pool of pinkish tissue. When the effect wore off the hero absorbed mass from surrounding objects, with amusing consequences.
doehring (12/11/82)
It was the Gray Mouser that shrunk so that he could go into the
rat city, not Fafhrd, who was off with his 'ghoul' friend at the
time ( At least I think this is in Swords of Lankmar, it has been
a while since I read that one, ask me about the others though...).
the martian
decvax!yale-comix!doehring