Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (novel) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (novel) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a science-fiction novel written by Theodore Sturgeon and first published in 1961 by Pyramid Books. Sturgeon wrote the novel from the screenplay that Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett wrote from an original story written by Irwin Allen. The movie also inspired a television series that ran for four years on ABC. Under the command of Captain Lee Crane and with Admiral Harriman Nelson, Vice-Admiral B. J. Crawford, Congressman Llewellyn Parker, and psychologist Susan Hiller aboard, the nuclear-powered submarine USOS. "Seaview" goes under the Arctic
The Man Who Lost the Sea head ...", "If you were the kid ..."). Shortly after its original appearance in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction", "The Man Who Lost the Sea" appeared in issue 74 (January 1960) of the French-language magazine "Fiction" (under the title "L'homme qui a perdu la mer"). Its first appearance in Britain was in the October 1963 issue of "Venture Science Fiction". "The Man Who Lost the Sea" appeared in two best-of-the-year anthologies—"The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction" (Ninth Series, 1960) and "The Best American Short Stories, 1960", as well as being reprinted in "The Fifth Annual of the