What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

Hi,
Read this book about 15 years back. It is set in a lab environment where they are conducting experiments to miniaturize everyday objects to microscopic levels and its effects.
They shrink many objects successfully and bring them back within seconds. The protagonist / maybe chief scientist shrinks himself to microscopic level and is brought back to normal size within seconds but the guy is dead with a decay of many years. It goes to prove that time is relative and is stretched as we get smaller. The person dies because what is a few seconds for us is an eternity at microscopic levels.
Taking the argument further it is proposed at the end of the book that we humans think we are the greatest but the world we are living in might be an extremely small speck for someone who is much greater than we are and our whole time of existence may be just a second for someone who is infinitely bigger to us.
The book was pretty humbling and i would like my children to read it but for the life of me i cannot remember what the title or author was. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Just a guess - Danny Dunn and the Smallifying Machine by Jay Williams.

Classic SF based on miniaturization..

It's not the Danny Dunn or The Fantastic Voyage. Those 2 I'm sure of. I also don't think (but am not positive) that it's Land of the Giants. But the other 2, I don't remember, so it could be one of them.

It's not Fantastic Voyage-they were miniaturised complete with a submarine, and came back OK.

Thanks for the response people, but i don't think it was any one of them. Maybe its not even a true 'classic'. Maybe some offbeat author. Please keep trying ... Thanx

C'mon guys,
pls dont give up ... really need the book

well, the beginning of the description made me think of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldo_(s...

but then the latter part throws me completely off that. Sorry, I don't recall this one at all.

Sameer, are you still looking for this book?

Yes, I still haven't found it.
Can you help me find this title ?

simply bumping the thread does help... here's a free bump for summer - come back in a couple of months to give it another one, ok?

Are you still looking for this book?

R.S. wrote: "Are you still looking for this book?"

Sameer wrote: "Hi,
Read this book about 15 years back. It is set in a lab environment where they are conducting experiments to miniaturize everyday objects to microscopic levels and its effects.
They shrink many..."

Hi Sameer: I was about to suggest Small World, by Tabatha King, Stephen King's Wife. It is a good read, but the plot is slightly different.

Small World by Tabitha King - Mark's suggestion

Whoa,

5 years and I still haven't found the book. Maybe it was wishful thinking on my part.

Any new suggestions ?

Sameer wrote: "Whoa,

5 years and I still haven't found the book. Maybe it was wishful thinking on my part.

Any new suggestions ?"

Don't give up hope. We've had books get solved after longer periods of time. Just bump the thread up every month or so and chances are it will get solved.

For YA or adults?
Author's gender
Cover art?

I am sorry, but don't remember that.

I don't think it was a popular author though...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Do you remember how the shrinking was done? Shrink ray?

I have read many books about this general theme and I don't recognise it from your description.

Can I ask, what era of science fiction was it roughly? Wondering if it was a 60s, or 70s, or 80s kind of vibe?

Try looking through the listings at this link...

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag.cgi?...

No response, moving to Abandoned folder.

Sameer (OP) last posted in the group in December 2018.