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POPSMichael Crichton 1942 - 2008 But what a strange career the man had, from Harvard Medical School to the top of the book and movie charts to Hollywood blockbusters to odd best-selling jeremiads against Japanese businessmen and global warming activists. The consistent themes of his work are the consequences of man's own hubris and a thoroughgoing paranoia. Someone is always coming up with a brilliant notion in Crichton, and it always goes hideously kablooey. Bring dinosaurs back to life? Okay, but they'll escape and gobble you up. Organ transplants? Fine until the medical establishment starts harvesting them for profit. Robots? Forget about the robots: they'll shoot you down ("Westworld") or come after you with knives ("Runaway"). Plastic surgery, biotech implants, chasing tornadoes? All terrible, terrible ideas ("Looker," "The Terminal Man," "Twister").
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POPSNovelist-Screenwriter Michael Crichton, Dies At 66 Crichton would visit that theme again with his triumphant Jurassic Park -- the story of a billionaire entrepreneur who tries to thwart nature and evolution by creating a theme park of genetically engineered dinosaurs. Again, the villain was of our own creation and just doing what nature dictated. In addition to being a prolific novelist, Crichton was an accomplished screenwriter (Extreme Close-Up, Twister) and director (Coma) -- the latter also a scientific cautionary tale by a British MD turned writer, Robin Cooke. He believed that there was a phenomenon he called "consensus science" that invented or exaggerated the existence or effects of such things as global warming and second-hand smoke. No less a believer than Al Gore dismissed Crichton, and presumably his 2004 novel State of Fear, by telling a U.S. House committee: "The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor....
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POPSER & Jurassic Park creator Michael Crichton dies felt funny hearing about his death since I recently started rereading his book timeline I seem to regulary get interested in someones works at the time of their passing a great writer , I hope he gets acclaim for his genius
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POPSR.I.P. Michael Crichton, dead at age 66 Other Crichton fiction novels include "The Great Train Robbery," "Congo," "Sphere," "Rising Sun," "The Lost World," and "Airframe." Nonfiction works include "Five Patients," "Jasper Johns," "Electronic Life," and "Travels."
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POPSSF Author: Michael Crichton The novel which became a Spielberg film of the same name. An island off Costa Rica is to become the world's most famous theme park - a dinosaur preserve, for a biotechnology company has succeeded in cloning 15 species of dinosaur. But the scientists' dream turns into a nightmare. Jurassic Park (The first book in the Jurassic Park series)
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