One of the classics in sci-fi, this novel is the narration of a man that is shrinking inevitably. Nobody
seems to have a cure for this strange disorder, but soon it is too late because his own cellar
becomes his cell and the quest of his life. Desperately adapting to his condition, he will have to
accept an strange fate, but before, he will have to survive whatever that is lurking in the darkness.

 

   Richard Matheson is indeed a monster inside the science fiction. Not only because he
had a unique imagination, but because he put his characters in the most anguish-filled situations.
In this case, the main character, Scott Carey, pass through the most embarrasing experiences. He,
like the main character in I Am Legend, lives in the most perfect solitude, isolated from all the world.
He really is the most lonely man. Until he finds someone. But he loses that someone nonetheless.
He doesn't know what's going to happen after he shrinks his last seventh of an inch, but he is
afraid of that uncertain destiny. But, I stopped at the half of the book and wondered, isn't it the
same uncertain, empty, sad and lonely life that everyone lives, taken to the limit? The answer, of
course, is yes. He created a terrifying metaphor of human existence. He provides an answer for
Scott's life at the end of the book, but still, the seed of the doubt is masterly planted in our own
deepest fears, where we don't know exactly what our lives mean or where they go.