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...
Sphere is a science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton and published in 1987. It was made into the film Sphere in 1998. The novel follows a psychologist named Norman Johnson, who is called upon by the U.S. Navy to join a team of scientists...
Warner Home Video Prebook June 22; Street July 14 'R,' 134 min., NA, CC Box Office: $37 million PPV Window: 56 days LIKE Congo before it, Sphere is a lackluster adaptation of a Michael Crichton novel that promises the thrills of his other...
Imagining Inclusive Society in Nineteenth-Century Novels: The Code of Sincerity in the Public Sphere. By PAM MORRIS. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. xii+261 pp. $44.95. ISBN 0-8018-7911-6. In contrast to other nations, observed Mme de Stael, conversation in England centred on politics....
With steely arms sprouting cables and wires, the WAO-1 robot looks nothing like a relaxation device.But researchers at Tokyo's Waseda University hope the contraption will soon be deployed to hospitals and spas across Japan to give therapeutic facial massages.The WAO-1 robot, which stands for Waseda...
Average commercial land prices across Japan rose 1.0 percent as of July 1 from a year earlier, the first increase since the bursting of the asset-inflated economic bubble in 1991, according to a government survey released Wednesday. The price rise was led...
