. . . Crichton's best novels demonstrate that, for the immediate future at least, technological innovations offer the same possibilities and limitations as their human creators." An essayist for
Contemporary Popular Writers explained that "Crichton's works are intelligent and informed. They explore issues of ethics, scientific challenge, and responsibility while providing fast-paced adventure and genuine intellectual puzzles."
Crichton was born on October 23, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois, the eldest of John and Zula Crichton's four children. The family moved to Roslyn, Long Island, New York shortly after Crichton's birth. His relationship with his father, once an executive editor for Advertising Age, was not pleasant. Crichton described his father in Travels, a book of autobiographical essays published in 1988, as "a first-rate son of a bitch," a Vanity Fair contributor reported. Yet he credits his parents with giving him confidence in his own abilities. "[They] were very inclined not to set limits on the exploration of their children," Crichton explained. "They were always saying, 'You can do that.' So I never had the feeling there was some area that I was incompetent in. I mean, computer programming---why not? If it's something to learn, I can learn it. I didn't have that sense of 'I'm not good at that' or 'I can't do that.'" His mother, a homemaker, took the children to museums, concerts, and plays every week.
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