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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.… (altro)
sturlington: Similar in many ways. Each stays in the head of a solitary hero, isolated by unnatural events beyond his control, struggling to hold onto his sanity and his sense of self.
Non è il mio libro preferito di Matheson, ma vale la pena di leggerlo, specie per la scrittura ancora fresca, nonostante sia stato scritto nel mio anno di nascita... ( )
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Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought.
Responsibility in the jungle world was pared to the bone of basic survival. There were no political connivings necessary, no financial arenas to struggle in, no nerve-knotting races for superior rungs on the social ladder. There was only to be or not to be.
To love someone when there was nothing to be got from that person; that was love.
But to nature there was no zero. Existence went on in endless cycles. It seemed so simple now. He would never disappear, because there was no point of non-existence in the universe.
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.
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Scott Carey è un uomo normale, che fa un vita normale. Ha una moglie, una figlia, una casa, un gatto, un'auto, un impiego. Ma dopo una certa gita in barca, questo mondo così normale comincia a trasformarsi in una giungla, la sua vita diventa un incubo a occhi aperti, una lotta disperata per durare. Tutti gli esseri e gli oggetti che lo circondano, assumono via via proporzioni mostruose, nascondono pericoli mortali. Solo che non sono cambiati loro; è lui, a cambiare, ora per ora, giorno per giorno, come dimostra ogni mattino la riga millimetrata. Finchè tutti i pericoli, tutti i problemi si trasformano in un'unica e allucinante domanda: "Che cosa esiste al di sotto dello zero?". Una storia da mozzare il fiato, scritta da uno dei più grandi maestri della fs.
*Ristampa del n. 277
INDICE ROTAIE The Day the Limited War Late (1977) ROBERT F. YOUNG
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