Plus, how many full-length novels are out there? We wouldn't even scratch the surface.
looking at full length novels with inflation scenes
I think people should check some full length novels to see if they have any inflation acts, then post them on here - along with the book's title and author, as to not anger them - so that we not only have regular inflation stories, but we also have ones from published authors. But who knows, maybe a well- known user on this site IS a published author.
I also think we could make sequels to those scenes... if the person that underwent the inflation survived, that is. For instance, I'm writing a book that involves a bunch of crazy labratory incidents, and one of them is about a kid who drinks an incomplete soda and... well... you get the idea. Anyway, the kid survives, so I'm making a sequel where he inflates again. Don't worry, he'll survive that one too.
So'who thinks this idea is good. Please tell me.
Tue, 05/28/2013 - 18:42
#3
doubleintegral
Wed, 05/29/2013 - 16:03
#4
LutherVKane
I seriously doubt we've found most of them. There are far too many books out there, and there hasn't been nearly as much of an effort to catalog literary inflation scenes as there has been to find those in visual media.
And if you're like me, you ran into some when younger but no longer recall them clearly. It took me quite a while to track down Gogol's Wife, and that was a story I read as part of a college course. I have to assume that there are many more even more obscure references out there.
Tue, 06/11/2013 - 06:41
#5
One novel that comes to my mind immediately is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, where Harry blows up his Aunt Marge in a fit of anger because she insulted his parents. You should have a look at it. You might like it.
Tue, 07/09/2013 - 12:17
#6
Oh, I already own all the Harry Potter books, movies, and related movies and books. So I already know that sceneand am a great fan of it.
Wed, 06/12/2013 - 20:29
#7
"Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo" has a fun scene where the heroine eats some enchanted food meant to be taken in slowly - of course it causes her to inflate rapidly; why else would I mention it here? :)
Tue, 07/09/2013 - 12:24
#8
Ooo. That sounds neet. I once tried to read that, but the storyline!... it felt like it was trying to tell me that (this is a metaphor. I am going to use random names) Gargon was looking through the forest of crapdeck for the enchanted poop sowrd of evil diamondland, so Jack has to travel back in time and enter minecraft to shut down the lackspyelch carrier, as to prevent diamondland from the darknes of Bellamsham. I mean, it's just fing impossible. But... now that I know it hasan inflation scene, I might give it a go again.
Fri, 07/12/2013 - 19:33
#9
To be honest I don't think the book is terribly good either. Imaginative, at least!
Thu, 07/18/2013 - 00:02
#10
"White Light" there was a scene with a living inflatable doll
Sun, 09/01/2013 - 07:46
#11
Inflate123
Bought the book for this reason. Very short scene of inflation, a page or so, but no ambiguity -- the character definitely is inflatable and inflates.
Author is sci-fi notable Rudy Rucker, and the book goes in and out of print. It's out digitally, but I got a reissued paperback.
http://www.amazon.com/White-Light-Axoplasm-Books-ebook/dp/B006QNTRJ0/ref=tmm_kin_title_0
Thu, 07/18/2013 - 00:04
#12
"White Light" there was a scene with a living inflatable doll
Thu, 09/05/2013 - 21:05
#13
Call me a poor excuse of a writer for not reading more substantial writings, but I read a companion novel to the videogame Borderlands not too long ago, called "Unconquered." In the novel, a stunningly-beautiful and ruthless tactician keeps her troops, members of Pandora's bandit population, in line with an experimental drug and a matching device designed to induce intense pleasure. One of the antagonists meets a grizzly, balloon-like, explodey end with the application of an experimental and much more potent version of the drug.
http://www.amazon.com/Borderlands-2-Unconquered-ebook/dp/B006VJMYRG/
Sun, 03/22/2015 - 21:46
#14
finally broke down and bought this book out of curiosity. It's not terrible but it's extremely mediocre; even if you're a huge Borderlands fan like I am.
The inflation happens to Dr. Vialle, the mad scientist who supplies the drug and device. He's described as stooped and weasely, possibly older; I'm not even sure. Here's the full transcription of the inflation:
"Then his eyes widened and began to bulge from his head. His tongue extended from his mouth..and extended more. And more. His neck was swelling; his face was bloating; his body was inflating like a balloon. Bigger, bigger yet...
Vialle shrieked in pain and horror.
Roland vaulted over the table, ducked down, rolled away-just in time to stay out of the explosion.
Vialle exploded, splashing blood, body parts, and bits of clothing over half the room."
That's it. The whole thing. In case anyone else was curious.
Wed, 10/02/2013 - 20:28
#15
CorpulentArtifice
The Edge Chronicles (children's series by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell) has a couple of scenes (one in the first book, a couple in one of the later ones) involving "hoverworm venom", which causes whomever is poisoned with it to swell up like a balloon and float away. There was also some danger of exploding, IIRC.
The only characters to swell up are male, though.
Thu, 10/17/2013 - 12:19
#16
There is one that I dont think anyones ever mentioned on here.
It's George's Marvelous Medicine by Ronald Dahl.
I read a lot of Ronald Dahl's stories when I was a boy (including that one) and I remember that there was an inflation scene in that.
Try checking that out.
Fri, 10/18/2013 - 09:30
#17
CorpulentArtifice
That should be Roald Dahl, not Ronald.
There wasn't any inflation in that one, but the eponymous "marvelous medicine" did cause growth in the protagonist's grandma and several farm animals, making them overall bigger and taller.
So, no real inflation, but if anyone on here's also interested in that kind of growth it might be worth a read.
Sun, 10/20/2013 - 12:52
#18
No, I remember there was definitely a scene where his grandma blew up like a balloon and then slowly deflated. Would be sexy, except the subject is an old woman. And a horrible one at that.
Thu, 10/24/2013 - 04:32
#19
The wording mentioned it looking as though someone had a bicycle pump and was pumping her up. Several of Roald Dahl's childrens' stories featured swelling/inflation or balloons/floating - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, The Twits. As someone sensitive to any mention of these topics, they stood out to me as a regular feature of his writing.
This Other Eden, by Ben Elton, features a great foreplay sequence in which a woman inflates her breasts with a small gas cylinder.
Tue, 11/10/2015 - 19:36
#20
LutherVKane
Rudy Rucker has made a number of his works available for free at his blog. White Light is among them.
I think it's a good idea in principle but i also suspect that we've already found most of them. Then again, most people seem unaware of the two Jonathan Swift inflation scenes, so maybe not. It would be really great if it turned out there were a few little-known inflation scenes out there to be discovered.
http://www.youtube.com/user/nineteenthly