Thanks for the adventures and fun ideas explored, RIP Michael.
I was looking forward to more, even if his later stuff got a little out of hand. Jurassic Park (both book and movie) and Sphere (book) were awesome.
RAAAAAAWWR!
I’m probably in the minority when I say that I thought State of Fear was a good book. He made some interesting points, and upon doing some research on my own after that, not too far from the truth.
I’m sad to hear he passed away. I was really looking forward to more of his books. For me he was the only one who god combine (reasonably) solid science with a good thriller. Rising Sun was probably my favorite.
He wasn’t my favorite author or anything, but I owned several of his books. Terminal Man was probably my favorite.
Sorry to see him go. 
Also one of the creators of the TV series “ER.”
That’s weird - my 12-yr-old stayed up late last night to finish reading Jurassic Park. He really liked it.
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I still give out copies of Travels as holiday presents. I never did finish State of Need and I don’t recall finishing Prey, but I have a whole shelf devoted to his books. How sad.
He was one of my favorite authors. I started reading his novels in the 70’s, beginning with The Andromeda Strain and The Terminal Man. Jurassic Park, Congo, and Timeline were among my favorites. The films made from his novels have often been hit-or-miss, but I have rarely been disappointed with the original novels.
He was a little older than I thought he was (he turned 66 last month), but still not terribly old. He had evidently been battling cancer off and on for a time and his death wasn’t unexpected to his friends and family, but he had chosen to be very private about it. As for his height- between 6’9 and 6’10.
Clearly, some media outlets have a vested interest in promoting an artificial consensus that Crichton is dead.
But where is hard data to support this claim? Isn’t it the height of scientific arrogance to assert that someone is “dead” with no more evidence than the opinion of self-appointed medical “experts” that his body is no longer living?
I liked Congo the best. Marvelously goofy, with footnotes.
I liked a lot of his work, but I lost all respect for him when he had a tantrum over someone criticizing his global warming nonsense, and retaliated by making the critic into a character in his next book. A character who rapes a two-year old, and is noted to have a small penis, to boot. Talk about petty and slimy.
See, some think that petty and slimy; I thought it was funny as fuck.
I love Westworld and enjoyed several of his books. I don’t need to respect a writer as a person in order to enjoy their work.
Can’t it be both? (Like the late Earl Warren?)
Booo! This is a bad one.
I loved his stories - he was an awesome, quick-paced writer, and I have (and will ) spent many hours lost in a world of his creation. I loved the ones mentioned so far, but will add my own favorite - Timeline. What a fantastic idea for a story, and it was very well done.
Thanks, Mr. Crichton. You added to my life, and I will always appreciate it!
I am so fucking sick of cancer…
NOOO! Damn. I loved his work. Jurassic Park was the first novel I ever read, and I still consider Sphere to be my favorite book.
I believe he has a new book scheduled to come out in December, but last time I checked his website, it didn’t list the name.
I dunno. I went through a major Crichton kick in high school that burned pretty bright, and pretty short. What eventually turned me off from him was a pretty consistent anti-science bent throughout all of his novels. Pretty much every story he wrote, everything would have been better if those pesky scientists had just stopped trying to learn about stuff. The end of Sphere was the most explicit in this, where the main characters actively settle on deliberate ignorance as the best way to resolve the novel’s central conflict. I think Rising Sun was the last of his novels that I read, but I wasn’t really surprised when he came out swinging against global warming some years later. His inability to actually understand the science he was writing about was one of his more reliable traits as an author.
That said, Jurassic Park and Sphere were great novels, despite the above flaws. I read my last Michael Crichton book fifteen years ago, but for about nine months there when I was seventeen, he was the coolest damned thing I’d seen in print. I’m sorry to hear he’s gone.
noooo…
I love JP.
And I loved his sequel to it. The lost world was MY favorite actually.
But I remember as a kid just reading his stuff and loving it. Congo WAS goofy.
good grief! this is a really bad year to be a writer.
i may have to rethink that write a november novel thing.
i enjoyed many of his books.
Damn :(.
I long knew about him from some of his films, of course. But I did not read any of his works until I checked Timeline out of our library here a few years ago. This year I’ve read his Airframe and The 13th Warrior (formerly known as Eaters of the Dead). He’s a good read.
RIP, Mike.
I was reading The Great Train Robbery today when I heard of his death.
Coincidence? Well, last week when I heard of Tony Hillerman’s death I was reading his Finding Moon.
Now, if you have a favorite author you don’t want me to use my rather frightening powers on by reading one of his books, contact me and we will work out a modest financial deal. And nobody gets hurt.