In Cells at Work, from a certain point of view, the body might seem to resemble a communist state, where the individual cells are expected to work for the good of the whole, people are assigned their jobs at birth, and the law enforcers are paranoid and xenophobic.
Fantastic Voyage’s plot is very much Cold War and one of Asimov’s complaints about it was that shrinking people like that is physically impossible, so clearly the “shrink ray” must be doing something rather different than just physically shrinking the submarine.
The crew are trying to save the “world”, but are planning to do so by destroying a blot clot with a laser. And, who’s responsible for blood clots in Cells at Work?
Fantastic Voyage’s plot is very much Cold War and one of Asimov’s complaints about it was that shrinking people like that is physically impossible, so clearly the “shrink ray” must be doing something rather different than just physically shrinking the submarine.
The crew are trying to save the “world”, but are planning to do so by destroying a blot clot with a laser. And, who’s responsible for blood clots in Cells at Work?