Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!ntt From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: authors and films - Fantastic Voyage Message-ID: <697@dciem.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 18:06:56 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.697 Posted: Thu Feb 9 18:06:56 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 19:56:03 EST References: <16286@sri-arpa.UUCP>, <597@ihuxq.UUCP> Organization: NTT Systems Inc., Toronto, Canada Lines: 11 ihuxq!amigo2 (John Hobson) suggests: Didn't Asimov write Fantastic Voyage? Certainly not. What he did do was write a novel based on the movie after it was released, incidentally improving the plot logic in the process. By the way, this was one of the first, if not the first, instances of a novelization of a movie appearing in hardcover. The producers didn't want to, but Asimov insisted. Mark Brader