Michael Crichton's Jurassic World
Title | Michael Crichton's Jurassic World PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Crichton |
Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Pages | 824 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780375401077 |
Now at last in one volume, Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and The Lost World--the two incomparably suspenseful, supremely scary, utterly unputdownable, worldwide best-selling return-of-the-dinosaurs novels, which together constitute Jurassic World.
Jurassic Park
Title | Jurassic Park PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Crichton |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 2012-09-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0345538986 |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Timeline, Sphere, and Congo, this is the classic thriller of science run amok that took the world by storm. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read “[Michael] Crichton’s dinosaurs are genuinely frightening.”—Chicago Sun-Times An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price. Until something goes wrong. . . . In Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller. Praise for Jurassic Park “Wonderful . . . powerful.”—The Washington Post Book World “Frighteningly real . . . compelling . . . It’ll keep you riveted.”—The Detroit News “Full of suspense.”—The New York Times Book Review
The Science of Michael Crichton
Title | The Science of Michael Crichton PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin R. Grazier |
Publisher | BenBella Books |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2008-02-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1933771321 |
Wherever the cutting edge of science goes, Michael Crichton is there. From dinosaur cloning to global warming, nanotechnology to time travel, animal behavior to human genetics, Crichton always takes us to the cutting edge of science and then pushes the envelope. The Science of Michael Crichton examines the amazing inventions of Crichton's books and lifts up the hood, revealing the science underneath. In intelligent and well-thought essays, scholars and experts decide what Crichton gets right and what he gets wrong. They examine which Crichton imaginings are feasible and which are just plain impossible. Scenarios examined include whether dinosaurs can be cloned, if nanotechnological particles can evolve intelligence, and if we can go back in time.
The Lost World
Title | The Lost World PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Crichton |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2012-10-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0345538994 |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Timeline, Sphere, and Congo comes the sequel to the smash-hit Jurassic Park, a thriller that’s been millions of years in the making. “Fast and gripping.”—The Washington Post Book World It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end—the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, and the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has survived. . . . “Harrowing thrills . . . fast-paced and engaging.”—People “A very scary read.”—Entertainment Weekly “Action-packed.”—New York Daily News “An edge-of-the-seat tale.”—St. Petersburg Times
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: the Junior Novelization (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom)
Title | Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: the Junior Novelization (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) PDF eBook |
Author | David Lewman |
Publisher | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 052558076X |
The newest film in the Jurassic Park franchise releases in theaters on June 22. This novelization retells the whole exciting adventure and features eight pages of full-color scenes from the movie.
Timeline
Title | Timeline PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Crichton |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Pages | 498 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 034553901X |
In this thriller from the author of Jurassic Park, Sphere, and Congo, a group of young scientists travel back in time to medieval France on a daring rescue mission that becomes a struggle to stay alive. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Compulsive reading . . . brilliantly imagined.”—Los Angeles Times In an Arizona desert, a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world, archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it. And with history opened up to the present, the dead awakened to the living, these men and women will soon find themselves fighting for their very survival—six hundred years ago. “Exciting . . . classic adventure . . . [a] swashbuckling novel . . . Crichton delivers.”—USA Today “More screams per page . . . than Jurassic Park and The Lost World combined . . . The pace will leave many breathlessly grasping for oxygen masks.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune “One of his best . . . [a] nonstop roller coaster of a novel.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
Disclosure
Title | Disclosure PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Crichton |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 2012-11-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0345539001 |
From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an electrifying thriller in which a shocking accusation of sexual harassment triggers a gripping psychological game of cat and mouse and threatens to derail a brilliant career. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A fresh and provocative story.”—People An up-and-coming executive at the computer firm DigiCom, Tom Sanders is a man whose corporate future is certain. But after a closed-door meeting with his new boss—a woman who is his former lover and has been promoted to the position he expected to have—Sanders finds himself caught in a nightmarish web of deceit in which he is branded the villain. As Sanders scrambles to defend himself, he uncovers an electronic trail into the company’s secrets—and begins to grasp that a cynical and manipulative scheme has been devised to bring him down. “Crichton writes superbly. . . . The excitement rises with each page.”—Chicago Tribune “A heart-stop story running on several tracks at once. Disclosure is up to [Crichton’s] usual locomotive speed.”—The Boston Globe “Expertly crafted, ingenious and absorbing.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer