Richard Matheson’s The Incredible Shrinking Man is, as the title might suggest to the perceptive reader, about a man who shrinks. Being written in the 1950’s, the cause of the shrinking was obviously going to be radiation. People were really worried about radiation in the 1950s. (Now we have become more sophisticated and only worry about radiation when it doesn’t involve giving up our cell phones.) So, at one level the book is just another warning about the horrors of the … [Read more...] about Shrinking Man