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by Michael Crichton
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86 editions published between 1998 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 6,553 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A Yale history professor travels back in time to 15th century France and gets stuck, unable to return to the present. His colleagues organize a rescue and on landing in France become involved in the Hundred Years War
Jurassic Park : a novel
by Michael Crichton
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159 editions published between 1900 and 2013 in 19 languages and held by 6,451 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An American bioengineering research firm erects a theme park on a Caribbean island, complete with living dinosaurs, and invites a group of scientists to be its first terrified guests
State of fear : a novel
by Michael Crichton
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138 editions published between 1980 and 2013 in 19 languages and held by 6,258 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In Paris, a graduate student in a secret laboratory reveals a powerful new technology to a beautiful and mysterious woman. A few hours later, the student is drugged and dumped in a river. Radical environmental terrorists are launching a fanatical campaign--and the very future of the world they seek to protect may be at stake. Only MIT scientist and federal agent John Kenner can stop the deadly plot before the terrifying consequences are realized--and millions die
Prey : novel
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73 editions published between 2002 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 6,018 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Deep in the remote Nevada desert, eight people are trapped inside of the Xymos Corporation by a rapidly evolving swarm of predatory molecules that have massed together to form a powerful and intelligent organism that is targeting its creators
The Andromeda strain
by Michael Crichton
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147 editions published between 1969 and 2008 in 5 languages and held by 6,001 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A military satellite launched to collect organisms in the upper atmosphere comes down in Arizona. Within a few hours, almost everyone in a nearby town is dead. A team of scientists is assembled to investigate
The lost world : a novel
by Michael Crichton
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143 editions published between 1992 and 2012 in 19 languages and held by 5,978 WorldCat member libraries worldwide On an island off Costa Rica there exists a hush-hush colony of giant animals which attracts the attention of two expeditions. The first one, including children, is led by a paleontologist, the other is made up of evil scientists who want to do experiments. The animals rout both without much concern for their motives
Disclosure : a novel
by Michael Crichton
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70 editions published between 1993 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 5,468 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An accusation of sexual harassment threatens a man's career in the cutthroat computer industry, and when he attempts to defend himself, he uncovers some damaging company secrets
Airframe
by Michael Crichton
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65 editions published between 1996 and 2011 in 7 languages and held by 5,443 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An airliner porpoises over the Pacific--dives and rises--killing a number of passengers. Human or technical error? On the answer depend a big overseas sale to China and company jobs. Vice-president Casey Singleton battles TV hounds, intrigues and a hostile CEO as she tries to determine the cause
Congo
by Michael Crichton
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137 editions published between 1980 and 2012 in 9 languages and held by 5,293 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "Deep in the Congo, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinji, an eight-person field expedition dies mysteriously and brutally in a matter of minutes." -- Back cover
Next : a novel
by Michael Crichton
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79 editions published between 2004 and 2013 in 11 languages and held by 5,264 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In a near-future world where biotechnology and genetic research has become big business, the discovery of several transgenic animals leads to a legal and ethical battle over the rights to genes that can be used for commercial purposes
The great train robbery
by Michael Crichton
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126 editions published between 1975 and 2010 in 14 languages and held by 4,762 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet nonetheless explosive
Rising sun : a novel
by Michael Crichton
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83 editions published between 1991 and 2012 in 7 languages and held by 4,674 WorldCat member libraries worldwide During the grand opening celebration of the new American headquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body of a beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins, and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue and a violent business battle that takes no prisoners
Sphere : a novel
by Michael Crichton
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57 editions published between 1987 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 4,589 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend together into the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanations. It is a spaceship
Pirate latitudes : a novel
by Michael Crichton
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55 editions published between 1999 and 2012 in 14 languages and held by 4,572 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "Michael Crichton presents a story about pirates in the New World"--Provided by publisher
The terminal man
by Michael Crichton
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60 editions published between 1972 and 2009 in 5 languages and held by 4,431 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. Electrodes are placed deep in his brain, sending monitored soothing pulses to its pleasure canyons. The operation is a success-until Benson discovers how to get the pulses with increasing frequency. He escapes from the hospital, a homicidal maniac with a deadly agenda
Eaters of the dead : the manuscript of Ibn Fadlan relating his experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922
by Michael Crichton
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46 editions published between 1976 and 2009 in English and held by 3,600 WorldCat member libraries worldwide It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to the north. Fadlan belatedly discovers that his job is to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings--but just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea
Micro : a novel
by Michael Crichton
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45 editions published between 2011 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 3,416 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A group of graduate students accept work with a mysterious biotech company in Hawaii only to be abandoned in a treacherous wilderness when they discover their employer's dark agenda
Jurassic Park
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96 editions published between 1992 and 2013 in 9 languages and held by 3,324 WorldCat member libraries worldwide On a remote island off Costa Rica, wealthy entrepreneur John Hammond (Attenborough) has created Jurassic Park. It features real live dinosaurs, created through the reconstruction of dinosaur DNA. Prompted by his lawyer (Ferrero), Hammond recruits paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant (Neill), paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Sattler (Dern), and eccentric mathematician Ian Malcolm (Goldblum) to take a guided tour of the park, evaluate it, and give it a seal of approval. Hammond's visiting grandchildren (Richards and Mazzello) come along for the ride, which is interrupted by a tropical storm and industrial sabotage
State of fear
by Michael Crichton
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40 editions published between 2000 and 2011 in English and held by 2,453 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In Paris, a graduate student in a secret laboratory reveals a powerful new technology to a beautiful and mysterious woman. A few hours later, the student is drugged and dumped in a river. Radical environmental terrorists are launching a fanatical campaign--and the very future of the world they seek to protect may be at stake. Only MIT scientist and federal agent John Kenner can stop the deadly plot before the terrifying consequences are realized--and millions die
Prey
by Michael Crichton
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31 editions published between 2002 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,317 WorldCat member libraries worldwide 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. As fresh as today's headlines, Michael Crichton's most 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 more
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Chadson, Džefri.
Chrichton, Michael 1942-2008
Crichton, John Michael.
Crichton, John Michael, 1942-
Crichton, John Michael, 1942-2008
Douglas, Michael.
Douglas, Michael <1942-2008>
Douglas, Michael 1942-2008 Pseudonym
Hadson, Džefri.
Hudson, Jeffery.
Hudson, Jeffery, 1942-2008
Hudson, Jeffery, pseud. de Michael Crichton
Hudson, Jeffrey 1942-2008 Pseudonym
Kraĭton, Maĭkl, 1942-2008
Kraitons, Maikls, 1942-
Krajton, Majkl, 1942-2008
Krāytūn, Māykil, 1942-2008
Kʻŭraitʻŭn, Maikʻŭl, 1942-2008
Lange, John.
Lange, John, 1942-2008
Lange, John 1942-2008 Pseudonym
Lange, John, pseud. de Michael Crichton
Крайтон, Майкл, 1942-
קרייטון, מייקל, 1942־2008
クライトン, マイクル
クライトン, マイケル
マイクル.クライトン, 1942-2008
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