Plot C
It appears, quite sadly, that author Michael Crichton has passed away at age 66.
I quite enjoyed his novels, and some of the films based on them. Yes, even though he really only had two plots, and the characters were never form than two dimensions deep, and despite the fact that "State of Fear" was a 400-page treatise and sermon against the whole global warming debate[1], the books were still very entertaining "airport novels" and could be quite exciting.
So, Vale, Mr Crichton. Your imagination was always great.
Crichton's novels, separated by Plot A and B:
Plot A - A group of people go to a remote location, using high technology, and only three survive:
Andromeda Strain
Eaters of the Dead
Congo
Sphere
Jurassic Park
The Lost World
Timeline
Prey
State of Fear
Next (I think... haven't read that one)
Plot B - Espionage involving high technology in a corporate environment:
Disclosure
Rising Sun
Airframe
And the ones that don't fit:
The Terminal Man (haven't read this one)
Binary
The Great Train Robbery (nor this)
[1] Crichton's argument: there's just not enough solid scientific evidence for us to predict the future of the world's climate - and what data we have from the past is too short term to know whether the climate change we've seen is humanity's fault or not. Problem is, his argument is worded so well, that it has made me a climate change doubter - I still believe we, as a species, shouldn't be so wasteful, and should re-use and recycle more, and certainly cut our greenhouse gas output... but I'm still unconvinced that the whole carbon trading thing, or even the Kyoto Protocol is necessarily going to have that much of an effect on the climate. Not saying they're bad, just that they may not be as good as everyone thinks.
I quite enjoyed his novels, and some of the films based on them. Yes, even though he really only had two plots, and the characters were never form than two dimensions deep, and despite the fact that "State of Fear" was a 400-page treatise and sermon against the whole global warming debate[1], the books were still very entertaining "airport novels" and could be quite exciting.
So, Vale, Mr Crichton. Your imagination was always great.
Crichton's novels, separated by Plot A and B:
Plot A - A group of people go to a remote location, using high technology, and only three survive:
Andromeda Strain
Eaters of the Dead
Congo
Sphere
Jurassic Park
The Lost World
Timeline
Prey
State of Fear
Next (I think... haven't read that one)
Plot B - Espionage involving high technology in a corporate environment:
Disclosure
Rising Sun
Airframe
And the ones that don't fit:
The Terminal Man (haven't read this one)
Binary
The Great Train Robbery (nor this)
[1] Crichton's argument: there's just not enough solid scientific evidence for us to predict the future of the world's climate - and what data we have from the past is too short term to know whether the climate change we've seen is humanity's fault or not. Problem is, his argument is worded so well, that it has made me a climate change doubter - I still believe we, as a species, shouldn't be so wasteful, and should re-use and recycle more, and certainly cut our greenhouse gas output... but I'm still unconvinced that the whole carbon trading thing, or even the Kyoto Protocol is necessarily going to have that much of an effect on the climate. Not saying they're bad, just that they may not be as good as everyone thinks.