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Michael Crichton Dies of Cancer « Result #1 on Nov 5, 2008, 7:54pm »
Michael Crichton died Tuesday November 4, 2008 after a long battle with cancer. I just found out and I am stunned. I can’t even react now, except to say it was much too soon. My heart and prayers are with his family and friends now.
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A Case of Need « Result #2 on Sept 17, 2008, 6:09pm »
Crichton's first novel... a medical one he wrote while still in med school, I believe.
I just reread it last month, about a year or so after my first reading.
All I can say is that you can tell that it's one of his early works, but it doesn't mean it's any less in caliber than his later novels.
He gets right down to things, doesn't waste time. There's not a lot of extra stuff going on, just the mystery and the process of figuring out the puzzle.
The answer is perhaps a bit obvious, but I think the trip there is still interesting.
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Re: Michael Crichton News « Result #5 on Sept 7, 2008, 10:06am »
According to Wikipedia, the title of Michael Crichton's new book is Final Day of Happiness and is about scientists working on an advanced Super-collider who inadvertently create an artificial black hole threatening all of humankind. Final Day of Happiness - Wikipedia
There should be a formal announcement on Crichton's website soon. The new book sounds extremely interesting! (But, of course, what else would we expect from Michael Crichton?) Back in March, this article appeared in the New York Times:
Asking a Judge to Save the World, and Maybe a Whole Lot More By DENNIS OVERBYE, NY Times, March 29, 2008 More fighting in Iraq. Somalia in chaos. People in this country can’t afford their mortgages and in some places now they can’t even afford rice.
None of this nor the rest of the grimness on the front page today will matter a bit, though, if two men pursuing a lawsuit in federal court in Hawaii turn out to be right. They think a giant particle accelerator that will begin smashing protons together outside Geneva this summer might produce a black hole or something else that will spell the end of the Earth — and maybe the universe… http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/science/29collider.html
I emailed the story to a friend and commented: “Does Michael Crichton know about this? LOL! Scientific hubris strikes again!”
This information should be reliable, as it includes more details and we can start taking reservations for the book.
I remember that in August 2006, the Barnes & Noble computers said Crichton’s book Next would be released Nov. 28 and that turned out to be correct. We also had the correct release date for State of Fear back in early September 2004.
Crichton’s website doesn’t make an announcement until they have all the details—title, cover, etc.—finalized. That’s what the administrator told me once.
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