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...
State of Fear is a 2004 novel by Michael Crichton published by HarperCollins on December 7, 2004. Like most of his novels it is a techno-thriller, this time concerning eco-terrorists who attempt mass murder to support their views. The book contains many...
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State Of Fear 05/01/2005: 916 words, approx. 3 pages
STATE OF FEAR Michael Crichton, 1004, 603 pp., $27.95, hardbound, HarperCollins, ISBN 0-06-611413-0 The polemical novel is a rich tradition in American literature (Uncle Tom's Cabin and Grapes of Wrath come to mind), wrapping complex political arguments in an engaging cocoon of a...
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State of Fear 01/01/2006: 858 words, approx. 3 pages
State of Fear by Michael Crichton Harper Collins/Avon * 2004/2005 * 603 pages * $27.95 hardcover; $7.95 paperback State of Fear is a didactic novel, teaching while telling a story. Author Michael Crichton is attempting here to do more than just to make...
BASRA, Iraq, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Women in Iraq's southern city of Basra are living in fear. More than 40 have been killed and their bodies dumped in the streets in the past five months for behaviour deemed un-Islamic, the city's police chief says....
A convicted bookie who went to jail rather than testify against reputed mob boss Frank Calabrese Sr. relented Monday and told jurors he paid thousands in "street tax" to the mob and once got a "juice loan" from Calabrese.Calabrese and four other defendants are facing...
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