Date: August 16 2021 3:57 AM Title: Chapter 1: The Beginning
Revisited this story recently and it has truly aged like a fine wine. I hope a Volume 2 is still in the works with some amazing growth ahead.
Date: October 02 2018 1:08 AM Title: Chapter 1: The Beginning
Nice setup. Love a slow shrinking.
[Report This]Date: February 16 2016 5:33 AM Title: Chapter 1: The Beginning
@minuss. This is an excellent story. This is how a shrinking story is done. So realistic al those situations and feelings. Outside of the exciting sex, what a frustrating feeling it must be. Very believable reactions and actions. What hard this must have been on the family and Karen. These are genuinly good people who made mistakes in the heat of the moment and where sorry afterwords. So realistic. You can feel the pain of his wife and daugther too. They have done things to Scott they will never forget.
I like how you've done Karen too. You wrote each shrinking state in so much rich detail.
One little point of critic. At the end of the story, I miss the fealing of sadness and fear with al his friends en family members when he is ready to shrink away and die. A miss the point where they actually realise that their father and old collegue is going to die and the fear he must be going through. The moment where it is not funny anymore to make fun of Scott.
Excellent verion of the Incredible Shrinking Man.
Thanks for this experience!!! 10/10
Date: September 16 2015 5:40 AM Title: Chapter 8: The Baby Treatment
Great story - you really know how to describe the powerlessness of Scott
Date: February 23 2015 9:52 AM Title: Chapter 4: Respect My Authorit-eye
Very much enjoying this story. Great writing. Very descriptive and the story flows very well.
Date: February 23 2015 9:22 AM Title: Chapter 1: The Beginning
Excellent first chapter. Great set up of characters without hurting the story.
Date: January 09 2014 6:06 PM Title: Chapter 1: The Beginning
Really enjoy this story. One of my favorites on this entire website. I hope to one day see part 2 and if it'll be Kimberly going through a slow growth giantess phase. That would be interesting to see given her character and how society would react to someone changing in the opposite direction. Hope you'll show it (or at the very least a tempting preview) sometime soon. Again, very entertaining read from start to finish.
Date: May 10 2013 4:45 AM Title: Chapter 1: The Beginning
Very well done, very enveloping characters and plot. As the story went on I found myself wanting to see more and more of Kimberly so glad to hear she features prominently in part 2. I don't really understand though, how some people could refer to this as a mini-gts story, as it's obviously shrink through and through. The differences, although maybe proportionate, are large. (pun intended)
Date: October 16 2012 10:52 AM Title: Chapter 1: The Beginning
I really like this story and I have been waiting patiently for volume 2. It would be nice if you can share any update on the volume 2 of this story.
Author's Response:
Hi Rasal,
Thanks for your interest. I have about 85 pages of rough draft written, but it is a long way from complete. I could post it in pieces, but I already have two stories that are unfinished that I am currently updating. This one I am holding until its complete before posting.
minuss
[Report This]Date: November 24 2011 8:10 PM Title: Chapter 1: The Beginning
I'm curious what did you think of the 'noir' story on giantesscity.com by telebot?
I personally thought it was great except the scale seemed to differ slightly from your guliveran/lilliput stories. But otherwise the story IMO was superb.
Author's Response:
I saw the story, but I haven't had a chance to read it through yet. Hopefully I will get to read it in its entirety soon. I'm flattered that others would like to write using the Gulliver framework I extended. Happy holidays!
minuss
[Report This]Date: November 24 2011 2:53 PM Title: Chapter 1: The Beginning
Very true. The slow growth to giga seems to to the tuffest thing to bring to paper(so many that you have to consider). But by no means did I mean to want you to feel that I was eagerly awaiting the next part(which I am lol) but I don't by any means want you you to forsake 'wedding story' or 'cities'. I was just curious. An if it counts for any thing the story that I can't wait to read more of is 'wedding story'. Well anyways glad you replied and happy thanksgiving.
aaron
[Report This]Date: November 23 2011 11:24 PM Title: Chapter 15: Conclusion
forgot how great this story was. will you be adding additional volumes to it?
Author's Response:
Thanks for the compliment. The plan is to add another volume that will be slow growth. I have it tentatively outlined and have about seventy pages of very rough draft written (it needs major revisions still in my opinion). Despite the amount completed so far the end is no where in sight. Also, I took a break to write The Cities in the Cellar and The Wedding Story epilogue scenes (which turned out to be more lengthy and numerous than I first envisioned). Unfortunately, that means this story is on the back burner right now. I will be finishing Cities soon. When that is completed I'll probably get back to this one unless something else more compelling pops into mind. Also, the size of this story means it is a much longer term project than I first thought as well - with a slow growth to giga there are so many angles and things to consider than a shrinking man story, imo.
minuss
[Report This]Date: June 04 2011 6:02 PM Title: Chapter 1: The Beginning
Possibly the best-written gts story I've yet read!
I am mainly a mini-GTS fan so this review will mostly pertain to the first 10 chapters or so, before he gets too small for my taste. But in those 10 chapters I absolutely loved the plot, characters, dialogue -- basically, everything. What sets this story apart in my mind is how the characters gradually treat Scott with less and less respect as he dwindles in height, shown by behavior that is sometimes subtle, sometimes overtly condescending, e.g. his secretary starting to call him 'Scott' instead of 'Mr. Adams', his family (even his own daughter!) patting him on the head, and eventually his wife reprimanding him as she would his 10-year-old son. Also, the choice of characters was perfect -- the women are tall, sexy, and confident, an excellent counterpart to Scott's diminishing stature and authority. One disappointment I had was that his boss, Gail, was phased out of the story relatively early -- I enjoyed how direct she was in belittling Scott and stripping him of authority; Karen was too soft as a boss in my opinion. Also, I have read on to some of the micro-GTS part and found it surprisingly agreeable as well, even though that's not usually my cup of tea.
Once again, fantastic story and I hope to see more mini-GTS content from you in the future!
Author's Response:
Thanks for the kind words. I'm sorry Gail couldn't stay longer, but elevating Karen from a subordinate to a peer and then to a superior was something that had to happen in my opinion. I probably could have done it and kept Gail around too, but I wanted Karen to assume Gail's authority. I also felt that it had to be a temporary gig to be believable since Karen had only recently been promoted to peer. I had toyed with the idea of having Gail make the visit to Scott's home, but opted for Karen instead. Admittedly, I did favor the former subordinate role reversal dynamic. I am about 40 pages into Volume II and so far it’s all mini-GTS. That will begin to change as the story progresses, but there will be a lot of mini-GTS content the first half of the story. Interaction at that size level is easier to accomplish than at the larger scales. Thanks again!
Date: May 12 2011 4:41 PM Title: Chapter 15: Conclusion
'msorry, I do have one more suggestion. The part when the doctors inserted the egg in the serum snd revereed the shrinking process, I wouild have gone back to Scott's pint of view and have him amazed that tespace inside the egg is getting smaller, that m aybe, jut mabe he's going to grow again.
Author's Response:
Thanks for the suggestions. I agree with you on both counts. The conclusion was probably a little rushed. I was so excited about finally finishing and getting it posted that I probably lost a little quality at the end. I think in the future I will hold for one more week after completion to allow for a couple of final proof reads.
[Report This]Date: May 12 2011 4:36 PM Title: Chapter 15: Conclusion
Excellent story. I do have a couple of small (pun intended) suggestions. First, I woul;davce stayed with WScott as he shrk beneath 1/16th of an inch so e could be sad about the posibility of never being able to grow again, to wonder wha it's like to be microscope sized ia giant world ala Inredible Shrinking Man. My other suggestion s to make it a bit more clearer that the point of view has shifted from Scott to Kim. Other than those 2 criticisms, wonderful story!!!
Date: May 12 2011 4:31 PM Title: Chapter 15: Conclusion
This story was excellent!! I do have a few small (pun intended) suggestions both relating to the final chapter. First, I would have stayed with Sott as he shrunk under 1/16th of an inch, maybe have him become blue knowing he will never be big again. Kind of lik Scott Carey at te end of Incredible Shrinking Man/ On to my second suggestion, when the point of view swings over to Kim, it should be a little clearer. I didn't get it at first and was confused, but I did figure it out. Otherwaise a FINE slowshrik story!
[Report This]Date: March 24 2011 9:27 PM Title: Chapter 15: Conclusion
i love your stories an this is no exception. well done.
hope to see volume 2.
aaron
[Report This]Date: February 28 2011 1:38 PM Title: Chapter 15: Conclusion
Excellent! Thanks for sharing this, here.
[Report This]Date: February 28 2011 1:35 PM Title: Chapter 14: The Beginning of the End
I sure hope that's the scientific institute with _good_ news!
[Report This]Date: February 28 2011 1:33 PM Title: Chapter 13: Scotty Speed Racer
Whew! That was a close one.