Authors: Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton is most famous for Jurassic Park. However, he has written quite a few good novels like Sphere, Rising Sun, Congo, Jurassic Park 2, Great Train Robbery, Eaters of the Dead, Andromeda Strain, Timeline and Terminal Man.
Michael Crichton spent time in his life as a doctor and a lawyer. He is an internationally known bestselling author, so wealthy that he has his own private jet.
Sphere is about the discovery of a UFO beneath the ocean. Crichton's idea that since the Earth is 75% covered with water, there is a 75% chance that if UFOs could land anywhere, they would land in the ocean. The UFO crashed at the bottom of the Marianas Trench which is six miles deep and the deepest part of the ocean. Most commercial airliners fly 5 miles high so that gives you an idea of its depth.
Rising Sun is a Police story about a former expat who spent some years in Japan mentoring a new recruit. The murder takes place in a skyscraper in LA owned by the Japanese. Because of this, the Police detectives must go into highly micromanaged ritualized Japanese procedures and this is something that affects their usual method of questioning suspects. However, it does not affect it all that much as the suspect is caught. A high priced call girl is murdered in the skyscraper. Someone is blamed for it, but the Police find the real killer using state of the art techniques as someone had photoshopped the video of the murder. Subsequent investigation uncovered the video layering and finally exposed the killer.
Congo is about a lost city in the jungles of Africa. It is also about gorillas.
The Great Train Robbery is about a train being robbed. Michael Crichton gets into detail and talks in minutae about the 1800s. The 1800s never went away. Tshirts, sweatshirts, jeans, navy cut jackets, blazers all first appeared in the 1800s.
Eaters of the Dead is the story of a person living in the year 1000 AD and living in the North with a bunch of cavemen.
And his most famous book of all was Jurassic Park.
Jurassic Park is a warning about failing to keep life simple. Malcolm is the mathematician in the story and he is a proponent of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. If mathematics, particulary calculus is about correctly predicting the final trajectory of an object and being right 100% of the time, it is ironic that as a mathematician, Malcolm subscribes to a theory which, in effect makes mathematics impossible.
So much for that. The team of three men and a woman and three children visit a theme park which is a zoo of genetically reconstructed dinosaurs these dinosaur have free range of the Park when a power outage thanks to the Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle unlocks or otherwise deelectrify the cages which hold the dinosaurs.
Mayhem erupts as the dinosaurs chase and try to eat the people.
Lost World Jurassic Park Two is just as good as Jurassic Park. The Lost World is the title of a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle book, also about dinosaurs. In this movie, two adventurers go to an island called Site B which is a secondary island to Isla Nubar which is the island of the original Jurassic Park. Site B is the laboratory hatchery.
Later on, a Tyrannosaurus Rex visits a major city with people.
Sure enough, most of the people wind up getting rescued, but not before running into an entire thicket of dinosaurs and the attendant troubles of that.
Timeline is about a time travel trip. Michael Crichton gets into theories regarding parallel universes, other dimensions and time travel in this novel. Similar to the rescue theme of The Lost World.
Michael Crichton is very scientifically detailed in his writings. The sentences have cadence. Michael Crichton is one of my favourite writers.
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