Michael Crichton Michael Crichton (1942–2008) was one of the most successful novelists of his generation, admired for his meticulous scientific research and fast-paced narrative. He graduated summa cum laude and earned his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1969. His first novel, Odds On (1966), was written under the pseudonym John Lange and was followed by seven more Lange novels. He also wrote as Michael Douglas and Jeffery Hudson. His novel A Case of Need won the Edgar Award in 1969. Popular throughout the world, he has sold more than 200 million books. His novels have been translated into thirty-eight languages, and thirteen have been made into films. Michael Crichton passed away from lymphoma in 2008. He was 66 years old. *** tambao Viện sĩ Timeline by Michael Crichton 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.
1953snake Học sinh Thêm một số tác phẩm của Michael Crichton Trong diễn đàn đã có mục giới thiệu nhiều tác phẩm của Michael Crichton. Đây xin bổ sung một số tác phẩm khác. Binary Fantastic book by Michael Crichton (writing under a pseudonym, strangely, as 'John Lange') following an old has-been agent from the State Department proving his mettle, John Graves a gentleman looking for a challenge, who finds it in the form of his equal: an Anarchist plotter (John Wright) who is aiming to nerve-gas Los Angeles. Unfortunately, the enemy dies before Graves can figure out what his plot is or how to stop it.....and that the plot is tailored completely around Grave's own psycho-analytical tests. Disclosure 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 find himself caught in a nighmarish web of deceit in which he is branded the villan. As Sanders scrambles to defend himself, he uncovers an electric trail into the company's secrets-and begin to grasp that a cynical and manipulative scheme has been devised to bring him down... Sphere In the middle of South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently undamaged by its fall from the sky. And most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old... The novel begins as a science fiction story, but quickly transforms into a psychological thriller, ultimately exploring the nature of the human imagination. The Great Train Robbery In Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one man navigates both worlds with ease, the rich, handsome and ingenious Edward Pierce. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the theft of the century? Airframe Terror fills the skies in Michael Crichton’s Airframe, when TransPacific Flight 525 suddenly “porpoises” while in flight from China to the US. Without warning, the Norton Aircraft N-22 brutally pitches and yaws through thousands of feet, killing several passengers and perhaps the future of Norton Aircraft. But what caused the deadly mishap? Was it counterfeit parts, as claimed by Norton’s finger-pointing president? Did the bizarre accident betray a concealed design flaw? In the ensuing days of chaos, Norton Quality Control VP Casey Singleton struggles to find the answer before an international conspiracy discredits the N-22 and unscrupulous news anchors air a lie that will bury the company. And she must do so while being set-up on the inside to take a fall by the very corporation she so desperately wants to save...
