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State of Fear»rank: 1249par: Michael Crichton
Chroniques et points de vue:From : Amazon Exclusive Content A Michael Crichton Timeline reveals a few facts about the 'father of the techno-thriller.' 1942: John Michael Crichton is born in Chicago, lllinois, on 0ct. 23. 1960: Crichton graduates from Roslyn High School on Long lsland, New York, with high marks and a reputation as a star basketball player. He decides to attend Harvard University to study English. During his studies, he rankles under his writing professors' criticism. As an act of rebellion, Crichton submits an essay by George 0rwell as ... |
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Next»rank: 13244par: Michael Crichton
Chroniques et points de vue:From : Amazon Exclusive Content A Michael Crichton Timeline reveals a few facts about the 'father of the techno-thriller.' 1942: John Michael Crichton is born in Chicago, lllinois, on 0ct. 23. 1960: Crichton graduates from Roslyn High School on Long lsland, New York, with high marks and a reputation as a star basketball player. He decides to attend Harvard University to study English. During his studies, he rankles under his writing professors' criticism. As an act of rebellion, Crichton submits an essay by George 0rwell as ... |
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State of Fear»rank: 37135par: Michael Crichton
Chroniques et points de vue:From : Amazon Exclusive Content A Michael Crichton Timeline reveals a few facts about the 'father of the techno-thriller.' 1942: John Michael Crichton is born in Chicago, lllinois, on 0ct. 23. 1960: Crichton graduates from Roslyn High School on Long lsland, New York, with high marks and a reputation as a star basketball player. He decides to attend Harvard University to study English. During his studies, he rankles under his writing professors' criticism. As an act of rebellion, Crichton submits an essay by George 0rwell as ... |
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Jurassic Park»rank: 14271par: Michael Crichton
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Unless your species evolved sometime after 1993 when Jurassic Park hit theaters, you're no doubt familiar with this dinosaur-bites-man disaster tale set on an island theme park gone terribly wrong. But if Speilberg's amped-up CGl creation left you longing for more scientific background and ... well, character development, check out the original Michael Crichton novel. Although not his best book (get ahold of sci-fi classic The Andromeda Strain for that), Jurassic Park fills out the film version's kinetic story line with additional scenes, dialogue, and explanations while ... |
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Timeline»rank: 2992par: Michael Crichton
Chroniques et points de vue:From :When you step into a time machine, fax yourself through a 'quantum foam wormhole,' and step out in feudal France circa 1357, be very, very afraid. lf you aren't strapped back in precisely 37 hours after your visit begins, you'll miss the quantum bus back to 1999 and be stranded in a civil war, caught between crafty abbots, mad lords, and peasant bandits all eager to cut your throat. You'll also have to dodge catapults that hurl sizzling pitch over castle battlements. 0n the social front, you ... |
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Congo»rank: 43478par: Michael Crichton
Chroniques et points de vue:From :lf you saw the 1995 film adaptation of this Crichton thriller, somebody owes you an apology. While you're waiting for that to happen, try reading the vastly more intelligent novel on which the movie was based. The broad lines of the plot remain the same: A research team deep in the jungle disappears after a mysterious and grisly gorilla attack. A subsequent team, including a sign-language-speaking simian named Amy, follows the original team's tracks only to be subjected to more mysterious and grisly gorilla attacks. lf you ... |
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Sphere»rank: 29496par: Michael Crichton
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton is possibly the best science teacher for the masses since H.G. Wells, and Sphere, his thriller about a mysterious spherical spaceship at the bottom of the Pacific 0cean, is classic Crichton. A group of not-very-complex characters (portrayed in the film by Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, and Queen Latifah) assemble to solve a cleverly designed roller coaster of a mystery while attempting (with mixed success) to avoid sudden death and expounding (much more successfully) on the latest, coolest scientific ideas, ... |
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The Andromeda Strain»rank: 12533par: Michael Crichton
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Some biologists speculate that if we ever make contact with extraterrestrials, those life forms are likely to be--like most life on earth--one-celled or smaller creatures, more comparable to bacteria than little green men. And even though such organisms would not likely be able to harm humans, the possibility exists that first contact might be our last. That's the scientific supposition that Michael Crichton formulates and follows out to its conclusion in his excellent debut novel, The Andromeda Strain. A Nobel-Prize-winning bacteriologist, Jeremy Stone, urges the president to ... |
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Michael Crichton: Three Complete Novels: The Andromeda Strain; The Terminal Man; The Great Train Robbery»rank: 55264par: Michael Crichton
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Some biologists speculate that if we ever make contact with extraterrestrials, those life forms are likely to be--like most life on earth--one-celled or smaller creatures, more comparable to bacteria than little green men. And even though such organisms would not likely be able to harm humans, the possibility exists that first contact might be our last. That's the scientific supposition that Michael Crichton formulates and follows out to its conclusion in his excellent debut novel, The Andromeda Strain. A Nobel-Prize-winning bacteriologist, Jeremy Stone, urges the president to ... |
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Prey»rank: 53838par: Michael Crichton
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln Prey, bestselling author Michael Crichton introduces bad guys that are too small to be seen with the naked eye but no less deadly or intriguing than the runaway dinosaurs that made 1990's Jurassic Park such a blockbuster success. High-tech whistle-blower Jack Forman used to specialize in programming computers to solve problems by mimicking the behavior of efficient wild animals--swarming bees or hunting hyena packs, for example. Now he's unemployed and is finally starting to enjoy his new role as stay-at-home dad. All would be domestic ... |