Michael Crichton. Harper, $28.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-247335-6
Crichton pays homage, again, to Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World in this entertaining historical thriller whose manuscript was discovered posthumously. But instead of the living dinosaurs of Jurassic Park, the focus here is on the fossilized ones
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Michael Crichton, writing as John Lange. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-78329-121-2
In Chrichton's 1969 title, originally released under the John Lange alias and bookended by a modern framing device for its reissue, an innocent man is plunged into the midst of international intrigue. American radiologist Peter Ross heads to...
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Michael Crichton, writing as John Lange. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-78329-123-6
The insightful predictions about future technological advancements that marked Crichton's SF thrillers are on display in another standout from his earlier efforts, this novel originally published in 1970. Once again, his lead is an everyman thrust...
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Michael Crichton, writing as John Lange. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper ISBN 978-1-78329-119-9
In this thriller written under the John Lange pseudonym, Crichton borrows heavily from the Hitchcock comic thriller North by Northwest, though the light tone isn't obvious from the outset. The book opens with a series of violent attacks: in Monaco,...
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Michael Crichton. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-78329-124-3
The storytelling skills Crichton brought to classic thrillers like Jurassic Park and The Great Train Robbery are evident in this suspense novel penned under his John Lange pseudonym. Expert diver James McGregor, an American expat, has steady work...
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Michael Crichton, writing as John Lange. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-78329-120-5
While Crichton's later work typically involved the grim consequences of combining human hubris and technology, he was also able to thrill while maintaining a lighter touch, as in The Great Train Robbery. Humor and suspense are again mixed...
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Michael Crichton, writing at John Lange. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper ISBN 978-1-78329-125-0
A daring plot to launch a devastating bio-terror attack on the U.S. is the engine that drives this pulse-pounder Crichton wrote in 1972 under the John Lange pseudonym. Admirers of Crichton's better known scientific thrillers such as Jurassic Park...
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John Lange. Hard Case Crime (www.HardCaseCrime.com), $9.95 (274p) ISBN 978-1-78329-118-2
In the 1960s, Michael Crichton wrote hardboiled pulp fiction under the pseudonym John Lange. Hard Case Crime is simultaneously releasing three of those novels all of which were revised by Crichton before his death in 2008. In this crime thriller,...
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Michael Crichton, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (377p) ISBN 978-0-394-56236-0
A Harvard medical-school graduate, inveterate traveler and author of, among other books, The Great Train Robbery (the film version of which he directed), Crichton seeks in immediate experience of new places and cultures to ""redefine'' himself and...
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Michael Crichton, Author Ballantine Books $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-345-37077-8
Bioengineers clone 15 species of dinosaurs and establish an island preserve where tourists can view the large reptiles; chaos ensues when a rival genetics firm attempts to steal frozen dinosaur embryos, and it's up to two kids, a safari guide and a...
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Michael Crichton, Author . HarperCollins $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-621412-2
From the opening pages of Crichton's electrifying new thriller, his first in three years, readers will know they are in the hands of a master storyteller (Timeline, Jurassic Park, etc.). The book begins with a brief intro noting the concerns of...
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Michael Crichton, Author HarperCollins $27.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-087298-4
Bestseller Crichton (Jurassic Park) once again focuses on genetic engineering in his cerebral new thriller, though the science involved is a lot less far-fetched than creating dinosaurs from DNA. In an ambitious effort to show what's wrong with the...
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Michael Crichton, Author HarperCollins $27.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-06-621413-9
If Crichton is right-if the scientific evidence for global warming is thin; if the environmental movement, ignoring science, has gone off track; if we live in what he in his Author's Message calls a ""State of Fear,"" a ""near-hysterical...
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Michael Crichton, Author Knopf/Everyman's Library $26.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-679-44481-7
""And the Oscar for Best Special Effects goes to: Timeline!"" Figure maybe three years before those words are spoken, for Crichton's new novel--despite media reports about trouble in selling film rights, which finally went to Paramount--is as...
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Michael Crichton, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $26 (355p) ISBN 978-0-394-58942-8
A young American model is murdered in the corporate boardroom of Los Angeles's Nakomoto Tower on the new skyscraper's gala opening night. Murdered, that is, unless she was strangled while enjoying sadomasochistic sex that went too far. Nakomoto, a...
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Michael Crichton, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $29.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-679-41946-4
One fact about this sequel to Jurassic Park stands out above all: it follows a book that, with spinoffs, including the movie, proved to be the most profitable literary venture ever. So where does the author of a near billion-dollar novel sit?...
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Michael Crichton, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $26 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44648-4
Like his role model, H.G. Wells, Crichton likes to moralize in his novels. In this slight, enjoyable thriller, the moral is the superficiality of TV, especially of its simplistic news coverage. Readers willing to overlook the irony of this message...
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Michael Crichton, Author, John Bedford Lloyd, Performed by , read by John Bedford Lloyd. Harper Audio $34.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-193025-6
In Crichton’s posthumously published novel, Capt. Charles Hunter leads a lovable gang of pirates in a raid on a Spanish ship loaded with gold off the coast of Jamaica. Hunter’s determination must contend with a host of rapacious...
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Michael Crichton and Richard Preston, read by John Bedford Lloyd. Harper Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 14 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-0-06-087308-0
Unfinished at the time of his death and later completed by Preston, Crichton’s last book receives serviceable narration from John Bedford Lloyd. Hawaii-based microtechnology company Nanigen has developed the ability to shrink objects—and people—and...
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Michael Crichton and Richard Preston. Harper, $28.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-087302-8
Does this sound at all familiar? A greedy capitalist exploits a technological breakthrough that could benefit humanity. His effort to show off his work to visitors on an island ends up with them fighting for their lives against savage creatures....
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Michael Crichton, Author, Dylan Baker, Read by , read by Dylan Baker. Harper Audio $49.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-087309-7
Do you own your body's cells? If a doctor develops a cure for a disease using your cells in the process, are you entitled to a share of the profits? These are some of the questions Crichton explores in his latest science-as-boogeyman polemic....
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Michael Crichton, Author, Crichton, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $32.5 (416p) ISBN 978-0-394-58816-2
An island off Costa Rica will soon be the world's most ambitious theme park--a dinosaur preserve. A visionary financier's biotechnology company has succeeded in cloning these extinct reptiles. Fifteen different species, presumably incapable of...
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Michael Crichton, Author, John Bedford Lloyd, Read by , read by George Wilson. Harper Audio $49.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-078601-4
For his latest foray, Crichton alters his usual formula—three parts thrills and spills to one part hard science—to a less appetizing concoction that is half anti-global warming screed and half adventure yarn. This adds a mission...
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Michael Crichton, Author, Robert Sean Leonard, Read by , read by George Wilson, intro. read by the author. Harper Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-053696-1
The concept of nanotechnology can be traced back to a 1959 speech given by physicist Richard Feynman, in which he offered to pay $1,000 to "the first guy who makes an operating electric motor... which is only 1/64-inch cube." Today the quest
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Michael Crichton and Daniel H. Wilson. Harper, $29.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-247327-1
Wilson confidently captures the voice of the late Crichton (1942–2008) in this chilling sequel to the 1969 blockbuster The Andromeda Strain. Over 50 years ago, the deadly, alien Andromeda Strain nearly wiped out a small Arizona town. When Project...
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Michael Crichton and James Patterson. Little, Brown, $34 (528p) ISBN 978-0-316-56507-3
Working from a partial manuscript discovered in Crichton’s archives, Patterson (the Alex Cross series) delivers a surprisingly seamless posthumous collaboration with the Jurassic Park author, who died in 2008. The action opens in 2016, when a class...
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Michael Crichton, read by Scott Brick. HarperAudio, , unabridged, 7 CDs, 7.5 hrs, $34.99 ISBN 978-0-06-247340-0
Set in 1876 on the Western frontier, Crichton’s recently discovered novel tells the story of two competing paleontologists pillaging the Wild West for dinosaur fossils. To win a bet, Yale student William Johnson joins an expedition with the...
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