“Eaters of the Dead” (1976) took the longest of any Michael Crichton novel to be adapted to film, likely because it’s the least commercial. But
“Scratch One” (1967), the second of Michael Crichton’s eight John Lange novels, starts slowly and without direction. I thought I’d have to make a tough
Most people know HBO’s “Westworld” is based on Michael Crichton’s 1973 movie of the same name, but it’s perhaps less well-known that Seasons 2 and
“Airframe” (1996) is the last Michael Crichton novel (under his own name) that I read for the first time. In the wake of “The Lost
After “Rising Sun,” Michael Crichton frustrates his science fiction fans by releasing yet another non-SF novel. But “Disclosure” (1994) is different in that it has
When the “Jurassic Park” toy line released “Chaos Effect” figures back in the day, I thought “Why not make more actual dinosaurs?” What Mother Nature
I was ambivalent about reading “Rising Sun” (1992), since I’m mainly into Michael Crichton for his sci-fi works. But I found it thoroughly engrossing as
The layperson knows Michael Crichton’s first novel as being “The Andromeda Strain” (1969), but his first published novel was actually “Odds On” (1966). He wrote
It’s been more than 20 years now, so I guess “Sphere” (1998) won’t become a cult classic. But darn it, it should have. This Michael
Most Michael Crichton novels have an immediate hook, which is often right there in the title, or at least the one-sentence description: “The Andromeda Strain”