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...

See also diagrams, history and English Timelines are vertical or horizontal representations of a journey through time. They can cover a thousand years or the events of a day or even an hour. They always involve careful selection of what to include and...

Timeline is a science fiction novel by Michael Crichton that was published in November 1999. It tells the story of historians who travel to the Middle Ages thanks to the work of a brilliant yet unprincipled entrepreneur who plans to use the technology...

"Timeline," Michael Crichton's 12th novel, is slovenly but sort of fun. Crichton's literary specialty is to put a new spin on the plots of old movies. What is "Jurassic Park" but "Godzilla" with more up-to- date science? In "Jurassic Park," Crichton brought the...

If I could turn back time . . . I'd see this one all over again! TIMELINE Directed by Richard Donner Paramount, in release Cynics mutter that Master and Commander sullies Patrick O'Brian's source by changing the flags of the menacing Acheron from...

A chronology of events in the Duke lacrosse case:March 13, 2006 _ Duke University lacrosse players throw a party at an off-campus house, hiring two strippers.March 14 _ One of the dancers tells Durham, N.C., police she was forced into a bathroom by three men...

Here is a chronology of events since Paris Hilton's arrest last year.Sept. 7: Officers arrest Paris Hilton in Hollywood for investigation of driving under the influence after she was spotted "driving erratically."Sept. 26: Hilton is charged with misdemeanor driving under the influence.Jan. 9: Hilton's lawyers...