Michael Crichton
Action packed novels with a keen science background. Michael Crichton used to be the writer that people read to get a feel for where science was taking us and the ethical questions we'd be facing when we got there.
Discovering Michael Crichton
I discovered Michael Crichton as a child when I found a script book of Westworld. I read that book cover to cover many times over the years and followed it up with the Andromeda Strain. Eventually, when Jurassic Park came out, his books became popular enough to become easy to get. That's when I read several others.
A lot of people think they know all about Jurassic Park because they've seen the films - that's sad. One of the parts in the novel I enjoyed the most was hacking the security system. There's a clever little C library trick in there.
Some good Michael Crichton related sites
What I've Read (and what's left)
Anything in boldface is still outstanding (I haven't read it).
Standalone Novels
- Airframe (1996)
- Andromeda Strain, The (1969)
- Binary (as John Lange) (1972)
- Case of Need, A (as Jeffrey Hudson) (1968)
- Congo (1980)
- Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1970)
- Disclosure (1994)
- Dragon Teeth (2017)
- Drug of Choice (as John Lange) (1970)
- Easy Go (as John Lange) (1968)
- Eaters of the Dead (1976)
- Grave Descend (as John Lange) (1970)
- Great Train Robbery, The (1975)
- Jurassic Park (1990)
- Lost World, The (1995)
- Micro (2011)
- Next (2006)
- Pirate Latitudes (2009)
- Prey (2002)
- Rising Sun (1992)
- Scratch One (as John Lange) (1967)
- Sphere (1987)
- State of Fear (2004)
- Terminal Man, The (1972)
- Timeline (1999)
- Venom Business, The (as John Lange) (1969)
- Westworld (Script)
- Zero Cool (as John Lange) (1969)
Non-Fiction Books
- Electronic Life (1983)
- Five Patients (1970)
- Jasper Johns (1977)
- Travels (1988)