Michael Crichton
October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008
Michael Crichton will forever remain one of my favorite authors of all time. I’ve read almost all of his books, some more than once. Michael Crichton taught me the value of research. When I read one of his books, I believe it could happen. Dinosaurs are alive, and if you want to travel to a parallel universe, you can.
I also remember the day Michael Crichton died. It was one of those deaths that you remember exactly what you were doing at the time. I was playing ping pong with my sister. We had the downstairs TV on to the CBS evening news. When I heard the news, I felt like I had been punched in the stomach. My entire body went numb. No more fantastic stories. No more to believe in. It’s how it felt. I still get teary-eyed when I think of him and what his books meant to me.
So today I’d like to mention his books.
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Fiction
Year Title Notes
1966 Odds On as John Lange
1967 Scratch One as John Lange
1968 Easy Go as John Lange (also titled as The Last Tomb)
*A Case of Need as Jeffery Hudson (re-released as Crichton in 1993)
1969 Zero Cool as John Lange
*The Andromeda Strain
The Venom Business as John Lange
1970 Drug of Choice as John Lange
Dealing as Michael Douglas (with brother Douglas Crichton)
Grave Descend as John Lange
1972 Binary as John Lange (re-released as Crichton in 1993)
*The Terminal Man
*1975 The Great Train Robbery
*1976 Eaters of the Dead
*1980 Congo
*1987 Sphere
*1990 Jurassic Park
*1992 Rising Sun
*1994 Disclosure
*1995 The Lost World
*1996 Airframe
*1999 Timeline
*2002 Prey
*2004 State of Fear
*2006 Next
*2009 Pirate Latitudes posthumous publication
2011 Title not yet revealed (Techno-thriller) posthumous publication
Non-fiction
Year Title
1970 Five Patients
1977 Jasper Johns
1983 Electronic Life
*1988 Travels
