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Sphere by Michael Crichton

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Author Biography

Name: John Michael Crichton
Variant Name: Michael Crichton, Michael Douglas, Jeffrey Hudson, John Lange
Birth Date: October 23, 1942
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist, screenwriter

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Biography of (John) Michael Crichton
7400 words, approx. 24.7 pages
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...
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Biography of John Michael Crichton
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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),...
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Biography of Michael Crichton
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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...


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Sphere Information
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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...


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Robot masseur in Japan gives facials
10/10/2007: 265 words, approx. 1 pages
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...
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Character actor Dabbs Greer dies at 90
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Dabbs Greer, a veteran character actor who played the Rev. Robert Alden in the TV show "Little House on the Prairie," has died. He was 90.Greer, a Missouri native, died Saturday at Huntington Hospital after a battle with kidney and heart disease, his neighbor, Bill...
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Putin warns of pre-election threats
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President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday warned of a threat of extremism and ethnic and religious intolerance in the months before parliamentary elections and he ordered law enforcement agencies to do more to protect Russia's secrets.Speaking to agents from the Federal Security Service and other police...
 


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Sphere by Michael Crichton

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