State of Fear Low Price CD
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Rating | : | 4.43 (839 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0061571210 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 6 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2013-01-21 |
Language | : | English |
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The novel races forward, taking the reader on a rollercoaster thrill ride, all the while keeping the brain in high gear. Thus begins Michael Crichton's exciting and provocative technothriller, State of Fear. Gripping and thought-provoking, State of Fear is Michael Crichton at his very best.. In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters off New Guinea. This is Michael Crichton's most wide-ranging thriller. And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means. In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor. Only Michael Crichton's unique ability to blend science fact and pulse-pounding fiction could bring such disparate elements to a heart-stopping conclusion. In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation tech
"Crichton provokes skepticism and independent thinking" according to Phil (not) in Magnolia. I didn't realize what I was getting into when I picked up this book recently. I've enjoyed many of Michael Crichton's earlier novels, not only Jurassic Park but also some of his lesser known works such as A Case of Need, one of his very early novels. My impression of Michael Crichton has always been that he brought a certain amount of technical . Cerbereth said Come for the story, stay to hear what Michael Crichton thinks about global warming.. Does for Climate Change what Jurassic Park did for genetics. The story itself is pretty entertaining, but as I read the book I got more and more interested in what Michael Crichton's author avatar thought about climate change and just science and the future in general. The book even sort of transcends climate change itself and becomes about how . "Michael Crichton a sane voice in the wildness of global warming group think." according to BKZOE. Not his best book but his alternative arguments against global warming are interesting and something we need more of. It's a shame he is dead he would be a smart respected alternative voice to global warming group think. The best part of the book is the three speeches in the front of the book don't miss those if you buy the book. Science is not
Heady discussion of genetic engineering, chaos theory, and paleontology run throughout the tightly-wound thriller that strands a crew of scientists on an island populated by cloned dinosaurs run amok. "Crichton's ankylosaur" is a small, armored plant-eating dinosaur that dates to the early Jurassic Period, about 180 million years ago. However, his career in medicine is waylaid by the publication of the first novel under his own name, The Andromeda Strain. This experience convinces Crichton to change his field of study to anthropology.1964: Crichton graduates summa cum laude from Harvard University in a