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UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · SCIENCE FICTION

Michael Crichton

Also known as: Jeffery Hudson (pseud.), John Lange (pseud.)

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Michael Crichton (1942–2008) was an American novelist and screenwriter. He wrote 29 novels and his books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films.

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The tropical rain fell in drenching sheets, hammering the corrugated roof of the clinic building, roaring down the metal gutters, splashing on the ground in a torrent.

— from Jurassic Park

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Jurassic Park

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Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton. A cautionary tale about genetic engineering, it presents the collapse of an amusement park showcasing genetically re-created dinosaurs to illustrate the mathematical concept of chaos theory and its real-world implications. A sequel titled The Lost World, also written by Crichton, was published in 1995. In 1997, both novels were re-published as a single book titled Michael Crichton's Jurassic World. In 1996 it was awarded the Secondary BILBY Award. Also contained in: [Congo/Jurassic Park]( [Michael Crichton's Jurassic World](

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Novels (Congo / Eaters of the Dead / Sphere)

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Contains three of Crichton's previously published novels: [Congo], set deep in the jungle near the legendary ruins of a lost city; [Sphere], set a thousand feet below the surface of the South Pacific, and [Eaters of the Dead]set in Bagdad in 922 A.D. All three novels transform fears of the unknown into moments of believable adventure and unbelievable suspense. :

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Five Patients

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ER is the most successful television series ever. Michael Chrichton created the series from his own experiences as a medical doctor in the emergency rooms and wards of Massachusetts General Hospital. Five Patients is Michael Chrichton’s true account of the real life dramas so vividly portrayed in ER. A construction worker is seriously injured in a scaffold collapse; a middle-aged dispatcher is brought in suffering from a fever that has reduced him to a delirious wreck; a young man nearly severs his hand in an accident; an airline traveller suffers chest pains; a mother of three is diagnosed with a life-threatening disease.Written with the same honesty, suspense, technological detail and excitement that have made Jurassic Park and Airframe No.1 bestsellers worldwide, Five Patients is an unputdownable account of life as it really is in a hospital.

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