Michael Crichton, Thriller | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Novels Adapted Into Movies Options

[tomy]

About Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008)
Pseudonyms: Michael Douglas (with Douglas Crichton), Jeffrey Hudson, John Lange
Michael Crichton is the author of The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, The Terminal Man, The Lost World, Airframe and Timeline. He is the winner of an Edgar Award (1980; The Great Train Robbery) as well as an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Writer's Guild of America Award for the television series ER.

Bibliography:

Jurassic Park
1. Jurassic Park (1990)
2. The Lost World (1994)

Novels
A Case of Need (1968) (writing as Jeffrey Hudson)
The Andromeda Strain (1969)
Dealing: Or the Berkeley to Boston Forty-brick Lost-bag Blues (1971) (writing as Michael Douglas)
The Terminal Man (1972)
The Great Train Robbery (1973)
Westworld (1974)
Eaters of the Dead (1976) aka The 13th Warrior
Congo (1980)
Sphere (1987)
Rising Sun (1991)
Disclosure (1993)
Airframe (1996)
Twister (1996) (with Anne-Marie Martin)
Timeline (1998)
Prey (2002)
State of Fear (2004)
Next (2006)
Pirate Latitudes (2009)


_________________________________________



Jurassic Park 01 - Jurassic Park

(IMG:http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/130/mc5e.jpg)

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now, one of mankind's most thrilling fantasies has come true. Creatures extinct for eons now roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit ahem--for a price.

Until something goes wrong....

CODE

http://rapidshare.com/files/17810255/MC-Jurassic_Park.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/17810534/MC-Jurassic_Park.part2.rar.html

*This topic has been split into separate posts, with credit to Tomy for all posts below*

This post has been edited by ItsMeHelena: Nov 16 2009, 12:26 AM

[tomy]

Jurassic Park 02 - The Lost World

(IMG:http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/2966/mc4a.jpg)

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, the island indefinitely closed to the public.

There are rumors that something has survived....

CODE

http://rapidshare.com/files/105268074/0263.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/105268424/0263.part2.rar

*split from Tomy's original post, with credit to Tomy*

This post has been edited by ItsMeHelena: Nov 16 2009, 12:26 AM

[ItsMeHelena]

Airframe

(IMG:http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1066/mc1x.jpg)

The twin jet plane en route to Denver from Hong Kong is merely a green radar blip half an hour off the California coast when the call comes through to air traffic control: 'Socal Approach, this is TransPacific 545. We have an emergency.' The pilot requests priority clearance to land - then comes the bombshell - he needs Forty ambulances on the runway. But nothing prepares the rescue workers for the carnage they witness when they enter the plane. Ninety-four passengers are injured. Three dead. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. What happened on board Flight TPA 545?

CODE

http://rapidshare.com/files/17809056/MC-Airframe.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/17809060/MC-Airframe.part2.rar.html

*split from Tomy's original post, with credit to Tomy*

[ItsMeHelena]

Andromeda Strain

(IMG:http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/6092/mc2c.jpg)

"This book recounts the five-day history of a major American scientific crisis. As in most crises, the events surrounding the Andromeda Strain were a compound of foresight and foolishness, innocence and ignorance. Nearly everyone involved had moments of great brilliance, and moments of unaccountable stupidity...."

Thus begins this extraordinary novel of the world's first space-age biological emergency.

The Andromeda Strain sets forth with almost documentary verisimilitude the unfolding story of "Project Wildfire" - the crash mobilization of the nation's highest scientific and medical resources when an unmanned research satellite returns to earth mysteriously and lethally contaminated.

Four American scientists, chosen in advance for their experimental achievements in the fields of clinical microbiology, epidemiology, pathology, and electrolyte chemistry, are summoned under conditions of total news blackout and utmost urgency to Wildfire's secret laboratory five stories beneath the Nevada desert. There - surrounded by banks of the most sophisticated computer-assisted equipment, and sealed off from the outside world except for a telecommunications link with the national security apparatus - they work against the threat of a worldwide epidemic to find an antidote to the unknown microorganism that has inexplicably killed all but two inhabitants (an elderly derelict and an infant) of the tiny Arizona town where the satellite was retrieved. Step by step they begin to unravel the puzzle of the Andromeda Strain, until, terrifyingly, their microbacterial "adversary" ruptures the hypersterile seal of the laboratory and their already desperate search for a biomedical answerbecomes a split-second race against an atomic deadline.

With its narrative force, its scientific detail, its suspense - as four brilliant individualists work together under ultimate pressure - this novel makes real for the reader the real world of today's science and medicine at the top-secret levels of the Science-Space-Military high command.

The author is a trained scientist. Newspaper stories from NASA that have appeared since the completion of the manuscript read like details from The Andromeda Strain...

CODE

http://rapidshare.com/files/568077/MC-AS.rar

*split from Tomy's original post, with credit to Tomy*

[ItsMeHelena]

Congo

(IMG:http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/797/mv3hm.jpg)

The legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj have seen an eight-person field exhibition die. After startling discoveries, a new expedition is sent back into the Congo--its mission, to descend into the secret world where the only way back out may be through the grisliest death....

CODE

http://rapidshare.com/files/12046512/MC_-_Congo.rar.html

*split from Tomy's original post, with credit to Tomy*

[ItsMeHelena]

The 13th Warrior (also known as Eaters of the Dead)

(IMG:http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/4269/mc3.jpg)

In A.D. 922 Ibn Fadlan, the representative of the ruler of Bagdad, City of Peace, crosses the Caspian sea and journeys up the valley of the Volga on a mission to the King of Saqaliba. Before he arrives, he meets with Buliwyf, a powerful Viking chieftain who is summoned by his besieged relatives to the North. Buliwyf must return to Scandanavia and save his countrymen and families from the monsters of the mist....

CODE

http://rapidshare.com/files/567998/MC-EoD.rar

*split from Tomy's original post, with credit to Tomy*

[ItsMeHelena]

The Great Train Robbery

(IMG:http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/8249/0679448950.gif)

In 1855, Victoria is queen, war is raging in Crimea, and, in London, a masterpeice of crime--the most daring train robbery of the century--is about to take place. Written with a unique documentary approach, The Great Train Robbery gives listeners a narrative made even more compelling by the verisimilitude of its fascinating detail, and remains today a thrilling good time.

CODE

http://rapidshare.com/files/11899894/MC-Great_Train_Robbery.rar.html

*split from Tomy's original post, with credit to Tomy*

[ItsMeHelena]

Next

(IMG:http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/7687/mc6.jpg)

Welcome to our genetic world.

Fast, furious, and out of control.

This is not the world of the future--it's the world right now.

Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why an adult human being resembles a chimp fetus? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction--is it worse than the disease?

We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps; a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars; test our spouses for genetic maladies and even frame someone for a genetic crime.

We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes. . . .

Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn. Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions, and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect.

The future is closer than you think. Get used to it.

CODE

http://rapidshare.com/files/17812232/MC-Next.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/17812349/MC-Next.part2.rar.html

*split from Tomy's original post, with credit to Tomy*

[ItsMeHelena]

Prey

(IMG:http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/6287/mc7wf.jpg)

In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has failed. And we are the prey.

As fresh as today's headlines, Michael Crichton'smost compelling novel yet tells the story of a mechanical plague and the desperate efforts of a handful of scientists to stop it. Drawing on up-to-the-minute scientific fact, Prey takes us into the emerging realms of nanotechnology and artificial distributed intelligence -- in a story of breathtaking suspense. Prey is a novel you can't put down. Because time is running out.

CODE

http://rapidshare.com/files/14761490/MC-P.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/14761608/MC-P.part2.rar.html

*split from Tomy's original post, with credit to Tomy*

[ItsMeHelena]

State of Fear

(IMG:http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/1214/mc8px.jpg)

In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor. In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications. In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters off New Guinea. And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means. Thus begins Michael Crichton's exciting and provocative technothriller, State of Fear.

CODE

http://rapidshare.com/files/568001/MC-SoF.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/568003/MC-SoF.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/568080/MC-SoF.part3.rar

*split from Tomy's original post, with credit to Tomy*

[ItsMeHelena]

Terminal Man

(IMG:http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/2239/mc9.jpg)

Harry has a problem. Ever since getting in a car accident, he's suffered from "thought seizures," violent fits in which he attacks other people. He used to be an artificial intelligence researcher, which may explain why he targets anyone who either works on machines or who acts like a machine--mechanics, gas-station attendants, prostitutes, exotic dancers.
But there's hope: he can become part machine himself, undergoing "Stage 3," an experimental procedure implanting 40 electrodes deep in the pleasure centers of his brain. The surgery is successful, and blissful pulses of electricity short-circuit Harry's seizures. That is, until Harry figures out how to overload himself with the satisfying jolts and escapes on a murderous rampage.

One of Crichton's earliest, playing ably on '70s fears of computers and mind control. --Paul Hughes

CODE

http://rapidshare.com/files/29233631/MC-Terminal_Man.rar.html

*split from Tomy's original post, with credit to Tomy*

[ItsMeHelena]

Timeline

(IMG:http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/6245/mc10.jpg)

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 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. . . .

CODE

http://rapidshare.com/files/567963/MC-T.rar

*split from Tomy's original post, with credit to Tomy*