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| x Jurassic Park |
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Jurassic Park is a 1993 science fiction thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. The film centers on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, where scientists have created an amusement park...
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| x The Lost World: Jurassic Park |
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park (also known as Jurassic Park 2 and The Lost World) is a 1997 science fiction thriller film, directed by Steven Spielberg. The film was produced by Bonnie Curtis, Kathleen Kennedy, Gerald R. Molen and Colin Wilson. The...
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| x Congo |
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Congo is a 1995 film, based on the 1980 novel Congo by Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park. It was directed by Frank Marshall and stars Dylan Walsh, Laura Linney, Tim Curry, Ernie Hudson, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Grant Heslov and Joe Don...
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| x Timeline |
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Timeline is a 2003 science fiction/fantasy film, directed by Richard Donner. It stars Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Billy Connolly, David Thewlis, Gerard Butler and Anna Friel. It is based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. Jerry...
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| x Sphere |
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Sphere is a 1998 psychological science fiction thriller film, starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, and Samuel L. Jackson. Sphere was based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park and The Lost World. The film...
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| x Rising Sun |
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Rising Sun is a 1993 film directed by Philip Kaufman. The film stars Sean Connery (who was also the executive producer), Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Kaufman, Michael Crichton and Michael Backes wrote the screenplay, which...
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| x Disclosure |
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Disclosure is a 1994 thriller directed by Barry Levinson, starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore. The movie is based on Michael Crichton's novel of the same name. Like all Levinson motion pictures from Diner (1982) to Liberty Heights (1999), Ralph...
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| x The First Great Train Robbery |
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The First Great Train Robbery is a 1979 film directed by Michael Crichton, who also wrote the screenplay based on his novel The Great Train Robbery. In the U.S., the film was also known as The Great Train Robbery. The film starred Sean Connery,...
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| x The Andromeda Strain |
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The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 science-fiction film, based on the novel published in 1969 by Michael Crichton about a team of scientists who investigate a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin that causes rapid, fatal blood clotting. Directed...
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| x The Terminal Man |
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The Terminal Man is a 1974 film directed by Mike Hodges and based on the 1972 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. The plot centers around the immediate dangers of mind control and the power of computers.
Harry Benson, an extremely...
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| x The Andromeda Strain |
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The Andromeda Strain is a 2008 science fiction miniseries, based on the novel published in 1969 by Michael Crichton about a team of scientists who investigate a deadly disease of extraterrestrial origin.
The Andromeda Strain miniseries is more of a ...
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| x The Andromeda Strain |
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The Andromeda Strain (1969), by Michael Crichton, is a techno-thriller novel documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism that rapidly and fatally clots human blood while, in other people,...
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| x Prey |
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Prey
is a techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton first published in
hardback edition in November 2002 and as a paperback edition in
November 2003 by Harper Collins. Like Jurassic Park, the novel serves
as a cautionary tale about developments in...
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| x Congo |
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Congo is a 1980 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton. The novel centers on an expedition searching for diamonds and inspecting the mysterious deaths of the previous expedition in the dense rain forest of Congo.
The novel starts with an abrupt...
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| x Rising Sun |
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Rising Sun is a 1992 internationally best-selling novel by Michael Crichton about a murder in the Los Angeles headquarters of Nakamoto, a fictional Japanese corporation. The book was published by Alfred A. Knopf.
Although a detective/murder mystery...
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| x The Lost World |
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The Lost World is a techno-thriller novel written by Michael Crichton and published in 1995 by Knopf. A paperback edition (ISBN 0-345-40288-X) followed in 1996. It is a sequel to his earlier novel Jurassic Park.
Like Arthur Conan Doyle's novel of...
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| x Sphere |
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Sphere is a science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton and published in 1987. It was made into the film Sphere in 1998.
The novel is about a psychologist named Norman Johnson, who is engaged by the United States Navy to join a team of...
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| x Airframe |
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Airframe is a novel by Michael Crichton, first published in hardcover in 1996 by Knopf and as a paperback in 1997 by Ballantine Books. The plot follows Casey Singleton, a quality assurance vice-president at the fictional aerospace manufacturer...
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| x Eaters of the Dead |
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Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922 (later republished as The 13th Warrior to correspond with the film adaption of the novel) is a 1976 novel by Michael Crichton. The story is about...
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| x Binary |
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Binary is a techno-thriller novel written by Michael Crichton in 1972 under the pen-name John Lange. The villain is a middle-class small businessman who decides to assassinate the President of the United States. He spends his life savings to carry...
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| x Five Patients |
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Five Patients is a non-fiction book by Michael Crichton that recounts his experiences of hospital practices during the late 1960s at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
The book describes each of five patients through their hospital experience...
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| x The Terminal Man |
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The Terminal Man is a novel by Michael Crichton about the dangers of mind control. Published in 1972, it was later made into a film of the same name.
Harry Benson, a man in his 30s, suffers from psychomotor epilepsy. He often has seizures followed...
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| x State of Fear |
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State of Fear is a 2004 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton concerning eco-terrorists who attempt mass murder to support their views. The novel had an initial print run of 1.5 million copies and reached the #1 bestseller position at Amazon.com...
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| x Timeline |
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Timeline is a science fiction novel by Michael Crichton that was published in November 1999. It tells the story of historians who travel to the Middle Ages to save a friend of theirs who already traveled back in time before them. The book follows in...
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| x The Great Train Robbery |
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The Great Train Robbery is a bestselling 1975 historical novel written by Michael Crichton. Originally published in the USA by Alfred A. Knopf (then, a division of Random House), it is currently published by Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins...
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| x Electronic Life |
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Electronic Life is a 1983 non-fiction book by Michael Crichton, an author better known for his novels.
The book was intended to introduce the idea of personal computers to a reader who might be faced with them at work or at home for the first time....
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| x Disclosure |
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Disclosure is a novel by Michael Crichton, published in 1994. The novel is set in a fictional high tech company, just before the beginning of the dot-com economic boom. The plot concerns protagonist Tom Sanders, and his battle against unfounded...
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| x A Case of Need |
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A Case of Need is a mystery novel written by Michael Crichton under the pseudonym Jeffery Hudson. It was first published in 1968 by The World Publishing Company (New York) and won an Edgar Award in 1969. The novel was re-released in 1993 under...
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| x Jurassic Park |
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Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton. Often considered a cautionary tale on unconsidered biological tinkering in the same spirit as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, it uses the mathematical concept of chaos theory...
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| x Odds On |
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Odds On is Michael Crichton's first published novel. It was released in 1966 under the pseudonym of John Lange. It is a short 215-page paperback novel.
It describes an attempt of robbery in an isolated hotel on Costa Brava. The robbery is planned...
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| x Scratch One |
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Scratch One is Michael Crichton's second novel to be published. It was released in 1967 under the pseudonym of John Lange. It is a short 192-page paperback novel.
Roger Carr has a lot going for him. He's a handsome, charming and privileged man who...
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| x Easy Go |
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Easy Go is Michael Crichton's third published novel. It was released in 1968 under the pseudonym of John Lange. Re-released in 1974 by Bantam Books as The Last Tomb.
Harold Barnaby is a brilliant Egyptologist who has discovered a hidden message...
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| x Next |
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Next is a 2006 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton, the last to be published during his lifetime. Next takes place in the present world, where both the government and private investors spend billions of dollars every year on genetic research....
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| x The Venom Business |
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The Venom Business is Michael Crichton's seventh published novel. It was released in 1969 by The World Publishing Company (New York) under the pseudonym of John Lange.
Charles Raymond is a smuggler and he is very content and mildly successful with...
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| x Zero Cool |
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Zero Cool is Michael Crichton's fifth published novel. It was released in 1969 under the pseudonym of John Lange, and later re-released in 2008 as part of the Hard Case Crime series. For this release, Michael Crichton wrote short new framing...
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| x Travels |
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Travels is a nonfiction book by Michael Crichton that details Crichton's attempts to leave his medical education at Harvard Medical School, followed by his subsequent travel to Los Angeles and adventures continuing his professional writing career,...
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| x The 13th Warrior |
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The 13th Warrior is a 1999 action film based on the novel Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton. It is directed by John McTiernan and an uncredited Crichton, and stars Antonio Banderas as Ahmad ibn Fadlan and Vladimir Kulich as Buliwyf. The 13th...
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| x Twister |
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Twister is a 1996 American disaster film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as "storm chasers" researching tornadoes. It was directed by Jan de Bont. The film was based upon a script by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin. Twister was the second...
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| x Westworld |
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Westworld is a 1973 science fiction / thriller film written and directed by Michael Crichton. It stars Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, and James Brolin. It was followed by a sequel, Futureworld, and a short-lived television series, Beyond Westworld....
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| x Jurassic Park III |
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Jurassic Park III is a 2001 film and the third and final in the Jurassic Park franchise. It is the first film in the series that is neither based on a book by Michael Crichton nor directed by Steven Spielberg. The film takes place on Isla Sorna, the...
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| x Jurassic Park IV |
Jurassic Park IV is a motion picture sequel to Jurassic Park III, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and the highly successful original Jurassic Park. It is currently in the early stages of pre-production, with full production slated to begin as soon as...
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| x Coma |
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Coma is a 1978 suspense film based on the novel of the same name by Robin Cook. The film rights were acquired by director Michael Crichton, and the movie was produced by Martin Erlichmann for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The cast included Geneviève Bujold,...
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| x Looker |
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Looker is a 1981 science fiction film written and directed by Michael Crichton. It starred Albert Finney, Susan Dey, James Coburn and featured former NFL linebacker Tim Rossovich as the villain's main henchman.
The film is a suspense/science fiction...
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| x The Carey Treatment |
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The Carey Treatment is a 1972 film by Blake Edwards based on the novel A Case of Need credited to Jeffrey Hudson, a pseudonym for Michael Crichton.
Dr. Peter Carey (James Coburn) is a pathologist who moves to Boston, where he starts working in an...
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| x Runaway |
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Runaway is a 1984 science fiction action film starring Tom Selleck, Gene Simmons and Cynthia Rhodes. This film also features Kirstie Alley in one of her early appearances. The film was written and directed by Michael Crichton. The original music...
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