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Michael Crichton - MD, Archeology, Dinosaurs, and Time Travel

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Ranked #2832 in Arts , #61954 overall

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You Want Thrills? Michael Crichton's Books or Movies Can Provide That!

 

Whether it's bioengineered and cloned dinosaurs, intelligent nanoparticles, space-borne mutating viruses, diamond-mines guarded by mutant gorillas, airplane crash investigations, time-travel by archeologists, or robotic cowboys, or climate change and global warming explanations, Michael Crichton can spin a wild and page-turning story.

Crichton uses his background as a trained medical doctor and his extensive scientific studies to provide convincing settings for his adventures.

 

Michael Crichton Books on the Amazon (not the river, but the place you can get great books at great prices!) 

Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, The Sphere, State of Fear, Airframe... 

My first experience with Michael Crichton's imagination was watching the movie "Andromeda Strain" on an old black & white television at my folk's home in New Mexico when I was about 14 years old. That movie scared the mess out of me. The next time I encountered Crichton's imagination was when I took my 7-year-old kid to watch Jurassic Park nearly 30 years later. That movie scared the mess out of both of us! Since then, I've watched most of the other movies based on Crichton's books and I've read all of his fiction works. He's an inspiration to us science majors who would also like to try our hand at writing.


The A&E Cable TV network recently released a 4-hour miniseries (on the Sci-Fi Channel) based on the Crichton's book "Andromeda Strain"--the series produced by Ridley Scott and Tony Scott stars Benjamin Bratt, Ricky Schroder, Eric McCormack, Daniel Dae Kim, Viola Davis, Andre Braugher, Ted Whittall, and Christa Miller. With more advanced technologies in special effects and digital techniques, this version may bring more thrills than the 1971 version (although the 1971 version was creepy enough!).

Michael Crichton by the Bay ... eBay, that is! 

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What's Your Favorite Michael Crichton Story? Drop a Note and Say Hi! 

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I'm a bookworm and M Crichton is my 2nd favorite author next to Koontz. Favorite books all time are Andromeda Strain and Congo. My 5 year old loves Jurassic Park, and I enjoyed it as well. Just checking out lenses than interest me and am 5 starring you and favoriting.

Posted May 12, 2008

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Living on Guam is what now "defines" me.  It was such a dramatic difference in my life and outlook on things that there's no way I'd be the same if I had remained in New Mexico or any of the rest of the U.S. Mainland.   One of the classes I took at the University of Guam was "Scientific and Technical Writing and Editing"... I did not realize at the time that this class would be setting the foundation for the rest of my working life.  I found that I *love* words and fooling around with making them work as best as possible.  I also took classes in formal linguistics at the University of Guam--and took classes in Japanese, Russian, Mandarin Chinese. These classes helped me to become comfortable with working with translations of technical material into English from other languages.  I can help folks with making their words work for the particular audience they are writing for.

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