Michael Crichton has been called a "megastar" who has made a resounding impression on the literary world. Critics applaud him as a writer who is entertaining to read and who can "elaborate a gripping high concept into a crackerjack tale" (Publishers Week...

Michael Crichton (born 1942) is best known as a novelist of popular fiction whose stories explore the confrontation between traditional social and moral values and the demands of the new technological age. His most successful novel, Jurassic Park (1990),...

Michael Crichton has had a number of successful careers--physician, teacher, film director, screenwriter--but he is perhaps best known for pioneering the "techno-thriller" with novels such as The Andromeda Strain, Sphere, and Jurassic Park. Whether writi...

When Antonella Badia successfully made the first gram of her gold nanoparticles in a lab downtown Montreal in 1994, she knew she had hot stuff in her hands. So did her mentor and research director Bruce Lennox, a chemistry professor at McGill University....

Novel Fashion Items the Prey At Int'l Kids Spring Show NEW YORK -- Retailers from as far afield as Montreal, San Diego and Palm Beach sought out novel fashion items at the International Kids Fashion Show's holiday/ early spring market, which runs through...