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Michael Crichton (1942–2008)

Autor(a) de Jurassic Park

151+ Works 151,677 Membros 2,310 Críticas 473 Favorited
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About the Author

John Michael Crichton, known as Michael Crichton, was born on October 28, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. He wrote novels while attending Harvard University and Harvard Medical School to help pay the tuition. One of these, The Andromeda Strain, which was published in 1969, became a bestseller. After mostrar mais graduating summa cum laude, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute in California before becoming a full-time writer and film director. His carefully researched novels included Eaters of the Dead, The Terminal Man, The Great Train Robbery, Congo, Sphere, Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure, The Lost World, Airframe, and Micro. He also wrote non-fiction works including Five Patients: The Hospital Explained, Jasper Johns, and Travels. In the late 1960s, he also wrote under the pen names Jeffrey Hudson and John Lange. He has received several awards including Writer of the Year in 1970 from the Association of American Medical Writers and two Edgar Awards in 1968 and in 1979. Many of his novels have been made into highly successful films, six of which he directed. He was also the creator and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning television series ER. In addition to his writing and directorial success, his expertise in information science enabled him to run a software company and develop a computer game. He died of cancer on November 4, 2008 at the age of 66. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Disambiguation Notice:

(eng) Michael Crichton also wrote under the pseudonyms John Lange and Jeffery Hudson, during his medical studies. He also co-authored one book with his brother Douglas under the pen name Michael Douglas.

Séries

Obras por Michael Crichton

Jurassic Park (1990) 20,625 exemplares
Timeline (1999) 13,488 exemplares
The Lost World (1995) 10,495 exemplares
The Andromeda Strain (1969) 10,110 exemplares
Prey (2002) 9,935 exemplares
Sphere (1971) 9,791 exemplares
State of Fear (2004) 8,706 exemplares
Congo (1980) 7,970 exemplares
Airframe (1996) 7,284 exemplares
Next (2006) 7,130 exemplares
Disclosure (1993) 5,418 exemplares
Rising Sun (1993) 5,406 exemplares
Eaters of the Dead (1976) 5,056 exemplares
Pirate Latitudes (2009) 4,460 exemplares
The Great Train Robbery (1975) 3,798 exemplares
The Terminal Man (1972) 3,607 exemplares
A Case of Need (1968) 3,229 exemplares
Micro (2011) 2,413 exemplares
Dragon Teeth (2017) 1,674 exemplares
Travels (1988) 1,390 exemplares
The Andromeda Evolution (2019) 745 exemplares
Jurassic Park / The Lost World (1997) 593 exemplares
Twister [1996 film] (1996) — Screenwriter; Producer — 511 exemplares
Binary (1972) 504 exemplares
Jurassic Park III [2001 film] (2001) — Autor — 433 exemplares
Grave Descend (1970) 329 exemplares
Zero Cool (1969) 295 exemplares
Jurassic Park Trilogy (1993) — Autor — 271 exemplares
The 13th Warrior [1999 film] (1999) — Autor — 270 exemplares
Easy Go (1968) 233 exemplares
Westworld (1974) — Autor — 205 exemplares
Timeline [2003 film] (2002) — Autor — 178 exemplares
Drug of Choice (1970) 174 exemplares
Scratch One (1974) 168 exemplares
Odds On (1966) 146 exemplares
Jasper Johns (1977) 137 exemplares
The Venom Business (1969) 133 exemplares
Twister [original screenplay] (1996) — Autor — 130 exemplares
Congo / Jurassic Park (1993) — Autor — 111 exemplares
Electronic Life (1983) 104 exemplares
Westworld [1973 film] (1973) — Director — 96 exemplares
Jurassic Park (Graphic Novel) (1993) 72 exemplares
ER: The Complete First Season (2003) — Creator — 67 exemplares
The First Great Train Robbery [1979 film] (1979) — Director — 63 exemplares
Westworld: The Complete Second Season [2018 TV series] (2018) — Autor — 58 exemplares
Disclosure / Rising Sun (1996) 48 exemplares
ER: The Complete Second Season (2004) 44 exemplares
Congo and The Terminal Man (1995) 39 exemplares
Coma [1978 film] (1978) — Director — 34 exemplares
ER: The Complete Third Season (2005) 33 exemplares
Runaway [1984 Film] (1984) — Director — 32 exemplares
ER: The Complete Fourth Season (2005) — Creator — 30 exemplares
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 25 exemplares
ER: The Complete Fifth Season (2006) 24 exemplares
ER: The Complete Sixth Season (2006) — Creator — 21 exemplares
ER: The Complete Ninth Season (2008) 21 exemplares
ER: The Complete Seventh Season (2001) — Creator — 21 exemplares
ER: The Complete Eighth Season (2008) 18 exemplares
Jurassic Park (Macmillan Readers) (2005) 15 exemplares
ER: The Complete Twelfth Season (2010) 13 exemplares
ER: The Complete Eleventh Season (2009) 12 exemplares
ER: The Complete Fifteenth Season (2014) 12 exemplares
Looker [1981 film] (1980) — Director — 12 exemplares
ER: The Complete Tenth Season (2009) 10 exemplares
Eruption (2024) 6 exemplares
4 Film Favorites: Horror — Director — 5 exemplares
Westworld: The Complete Fourth Season — Autor — 5 exemplares
The Terminal Man / Twister (2001) 5 exemplares
Michael Crichton 4 exemplares
4 Film Favorites: Michael Douglas Collection (2011) — Director — 4 exemplares
Physical Evidence (1989) 4 exemplares
Congo / The Great Train Robbery (1998) 4 exemplares
Overkill (1972) 3 exemplares
Pursuit (2004) 3 exemplares
ESSENTIALS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY (2014) 3 exemplares
Blood Doesn't Come Out — Autor — 3 exemplares
Un caso de urgencia (1994) 2 exemplares
State of Fear / Next 2 exemplares
Travels, Vol. 1 (2000) 1 exemplar
Travels, Vol. 2 (2000) 1 exemplar
Rising Sun / Congo (1994) 1 exemplar
Haksız Yasak 1 exemplar
Andrómeda 1 exemplar
Kirjavaliot (1998) 1 exemplar
De Andromeda Evolutie (2020) 1 exemplar
Kong ju zhi bang (2005) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Lost World (1912) — Introdução, algumas edições4,761 exemplares
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (2002) — Contribuidor — 1,470 exemplares
Jurassic Park [1993 film] (1993) — Screenwriter — 848 exemplares
Approaching Oblivion (1974) — Prefácio, algumas edições693 exemplares
Congo [1995 film] (1995) — Original author — 108 exemplares
Jurassic Park Collection: 4-Movie Collection (2015) — Autor — 84 exemplares
Jurassic Park [Movie Storybook] (1993) 55 exemplares
Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1976 v01 (1976) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
The Andromeda Strain [2008 TV mini series] (2010) — Original book — 31 exemplares
Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1972 v04 (1972) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
Where the Silence Rings: A Literary Companion to Mountains (2007) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Die 7 Todsünden (2007) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Crichton, John Michael
Outros nomes
Lange, John (pseudonym)
Hudson, Jeffrey (pseudonym)
Douglas, Michael (shared pseudonym with his brother Douglas)
Data de nascimento
1942-10-23
Data de falecimento
2008-11-04
Localização do túmulo
Los Angeles, California, USA
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Local de falecimento
Los Angeles, California, USA
Causa da morte
Lymphoma
Locais de residência
Chicago, Illinois, USA
New York, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Educação
Harvard University (MD|1969)
Harvard College (AB|1964)
Ocupações
screenwriter
director
producer
novelist
physician
Relações
Martin, Anne-Marie (former wife)
Crichton, Douglas (brother)
Organizações
Jonas Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Author's Guild
Writers Guild of America
PEN America Center
Directors Guild of America
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (mostrar todos 7)
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Prémios e menções honrosas
Phi Beta Kappa
Association of American Medical Writers Award (1970)
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Technical Achievement Award ∙ 1995)
The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Journalism Award (2006)

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Michael Crichton was born in Chicago in 1942. His novels include Next, State of Fear, Prey, Timeline, Jurassic Park, and The Andromeda Strain. He was also the creator of the television series ER. One of the most popular writers in the world, his books have been made into thirteen films, and translated in thirty-six languages. He died in 2008.
Nota de desambiguação
Michael Crichton also wrote under the pseudonyms John Lange and Jeffery Hudson, during his medical studies. He also co-authored one book with his brother Douglas under the pen name Michael Douglas.

Membros

Discussions

Chricton's Sphere Arrived em Easton Press Collectors (Julho 2023)
Jurassic Park - Folio edition em Folio Society Devotees (Setembro 2021)

Críticas

The title of this 2019 novel immediately evokes a trip down memory lane. Childhood memories of a devious virus from outer space that threatens our world. There are fully suited up scientists, muffled voices and fearful eyes behind shiny glass visors, and despite the benefit of a secure facility in full biological lockdown the scientists are outwitted by the virus time and again. Andromeda Strain, the title of the 1969 book / 1971 film made us look up at the stars and as if their indifferent twinkles and the coldness of space was not terrible enough, all of a sudden we understood there was, in addition, a merciless unfeeling evil out there.
Obviously, Andromeda Evolution, the long overdue continuation of Crichton’s Andromeda Strain, was not written by the master himself for Crichton had passed away in 2008. Nevertheless, I would call this a worthy successor to the iconic thriller Andromeda Strain of 1969, all the while wondering if Crichton would agree. Sadly the master himself is not with us anymore and we shall never know. Perhaps he would like the way the author pays him well-deserved homage by commenting on key events in the book with quotes by Crichton. Andromeda Strain ended with a cliffhanger and Andromeda Evolution’s plot dovetails nicely into where it was left off so many years ago. Even the fifty year technology gap was bridged seamlessly - a feat not easily accomplished.
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The ‘Grave Descend’ (“a hell of a name for a ship”) is a boat, a sunken boat. In Jamaican territorial waters. Jim Mcgregor, a salvage diver, is hired to find out why it went down. But, as his friend Sylvie says, “It is very peculiar that they would hire you to salvage a yacht which is afloat.” Peculiar indeed!

A very quick read, that has a nice crisp pace! Lots of shady dealings, and double crossing, and action! And nasty ocelots! This definitely could have had a sequel or two! Just watch out for those hammerheads!

“The curious fish,” Yeoman said, “gets the hook.” (Yeoman was my favorite character in this book!)
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Sci-Fi
 
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Estatísticas

Obras
151
Also by
32
Membros
151,677
Popularidade
#40
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Críticas
2,310
ISBN
1,987
Línguas
37
Marcado como favorito
473

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