Land of the Giants
The blurb on the back:
Where were they?
opening lines:
From back in the days when American TV specialized in interminable semi-SF adventure serials like Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ... here's another. And, as it happens, it's from Irwin Allen, the man who gave us those other shows as well.
Now, the idea of small people in a big world was explored so thoroughly by Dean Swift in Gulliver's Travels, and with such a superb satirical undercurrent, that you'd have thought there was no point in anyone doing it all again unless you really had something original to say. But they did. They've been doing it again and again for years, with no purpose whatsoever.
In truth, Land of the Giants wasn't entirely unwatchable. But it was entirely pointless. And the novels are an entire waste of my time and yours, even if one's written by Murray Leinster, a respectable and respected SF writer.
Great covers, though.
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