Recommendations for Size Literature

Shardro

Hey everyone! I was wondering if anyone can think of any decent, published literature with some good G/t in it? Doesn’t have to be fetishized at all. Just want some good fiction I can read without having to look at a screen. Novels/novelettes, ebooks, even audiobooks if there are any. Preferably not a children’s story either.

I figure there are a bunch of films and TV shows with sizey elements in them. Even some with consistently big or small characters. There must be a bunch of books or something out there that have characters of different sizes, but I’m struggling to think of many for YA audiences and older, besides the blindingly obvious like Alice in Wonderland or Gulliver’s Travels.

For myself I’d be hoping for something with some SW, but I’d be interested to hear of any kind of G/t in more mainstream literature.

Any pointers would be very welcome! Thank you in advance!

EDIT:

Thanks to everyone for the input! There are a lot of names mentioned in this thread and some of them have little information besides that they are G/t related. As such, I’ve decided to take the time to compile as many as I can find into a spreadsheet, which not only keeps them stored concisely, but will also contain useful information about the kind of G/t content you can expect from each one.

This spreadsheet is public and can be edited by anyone! Please feel free to browse, and be courteous and considerate if you decide to add or edit. This is meant for everyone.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE SPREADSHEET!

As I write this it is still in the early stages. I’ve got a tonne of books listed in there but not a lot of info about what each one is. Please bear with me as I collate this information, or feel free to add it yourself. Thank you!

lux_aeterna

@shardro I don’t know if I can call them all mainstream, but there’s a bunch of works on this list. Maybe you’ll find something you like.

Taedis

@shardro I haven’t read it in years, but Small World by Tabitha King features a shrunken woman (and other people) plot. I remember liking it when I read it, but it’s been a long time. I think the cover contributed to more than one person developing a thing for SW.

Here’s its Goodreads page.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373167.Small_World

There was also a series of novels from the early 80s called The Micronauts (not to be mistaken with the toy/comic line). I read the first when I was a teenager and thought it was pretty good. That was a long time ago, so take the review with a mountain of salt.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/874830.The_Micronauts

For something a little more recent you might be interested in Micro. I haven’t read it, but it’s the most recent mainstream/high profile book that I’ve heard about in size.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_(novel)

I hope you find something you like.

Shardro

Thanks guys, this is awesome! Exactly what I was hoping for! Out of interest have you (or anyone else) read any of these? I’d love to hear some opinions.

You might try “The Man Who Liked Women” by Marc Brandel.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2675147-the-man-who-liked-women

"Bascombe was a man who liked women—and he made love to them in astounding numbers. So when Venus, the Goddess of Love, decided to pay a good-will visit to Earth, she naturally picked Bascombe to be her mortal host and protector.

It didn’t matter that she was only an inch and a half tall. She was delectably formed and growing larger every day. And in the meantime, oh my, the ways she found to make Bascombe happy!"

One of my earliest influences.

Seeya

Taedis

@shardro

Of that list I’ve read the following (some of them a very long time ago):

A Golem In The Gears (Anthony) Fun, very pun heavy. Part of a series with little size outside this book. Liked it when I was a teenager.

Fantastic Voyage 1 (Asimov) A hard(er) SF book that I liked better than the movie. If you don’t like Asimov you probably won’t like this.

Surface Tension (Blish): An excellent hard science fiction short story.

Dr. Cyclops (Garth): Very strong size vibes throughout. I liked it better than the movie, but it’s been so long since I’ve read it I can’t remember if some of the casual racism (the Mexican character is comic relief) was in the story as well as the movie. Things are allowed to play out longer and to better effect than in the movie.

He Who Shrank (Hasse): An often revisited classic short story. Asimov has stated that this story made him wonder if he could ever write anything as good back when he was a fledgling author.

The Shrinking Man (Matheson): Probably the best written size book I’ve ever read. The protagonist is an example of toxic masculinity and there’s some REALLY problematic material (the title character pervs on a teenage babysitter after his wife rejects him for being too small, and there’s a scene with a child molester who is coded gay), but the story structure is brilliant. It’s informed my own writing. I don’t know if the positives outweigh the negatives, but the book has to be in the conversation.

Shardro

This is all wonderful! In fact there are so many titles here I feel a little overwhelmed. Since I have some preferences for certain content, as I’m sure most of us do, I’ve decided to take the time to get these all written up into a spreadsheet. For each entry I’m listing the kinds of content the story contains to try and help figure out which ones I want to try. It only makes sense to share this with you all as well.

It’s still a work in progress, and if anyone is interested I am allowing anyone with access to this spreadsheet to edit it. You can insert new entries and help to provide information that might be useful to anyone looking for something to read (including any notes on which ones might be considered to be problematic in any way).

I will edit the original post to include a link to this as well.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE SPREADSHEET!

Please, help yourselves! Just make sure to be courteous and considerate when editing this spreadsheet. Thank you all!