Jurassic Park | Techniques

Jurassic Park Techniques

Jurassic Park is a scientific thriller.

This genre usually presents characters making their way through an extremely dangerous, often mysterious, environment to the relative safety of the everyday world, sometimes solving a problem along the way, other times accomplishing no more than their own survival. Crichton's early novel, The Andromeda Strain (1969), is a good example of the genre, where scientists must survive contact with the strange world of the ultra-clean biological laboratory, risking exposure to an unknown plague virus in order to study it and learn how to prevent its spread. For the author, a thorough grounding in modern science is necessary to make such a thriller both interesting and convincing. As an anthropologist and medical doctor, Crichton has parlayed his knowledge and skills as a researcher into a long career as a best-selling author of scientific thrillers.

Part of Crichton's success is due to...
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