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Michael Crichton

June 2024

  • Did he see it coming? … Mauna Loa erupts on Hawaii in 2022.

    The nuclear volcano’s about to blow! Can Michael Crichton score an explosive hit from beyond the grave?

    From Jurassic Park to Westworld, he was king of the sciency disaster novel. But Crichton died before finishing Eruption. Who could possibly complete it? Fellow thriller legend James Patterson explains why he took up the baton

August 2023

  • Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Laura Dern and Sam Neill in Jurassic Park (1993).

    Jurassic Park review – Steven Spielberg’s meaty dino-fest is as delicious as ever

  • Yul Brynner in Westworld

    Westworld at 50: Michael Crichton’s bleak vision of AI remains chilling

December 2022

  • James Patterson

    James Patterson to complete unfinished Michael Crichton book

    Late author’s estate has shared a manuscript with the bestselling novelist centered on a volcanic eruption in Hawaii

May 2019

  • Techno-thrills … James Olson in the 1971 film of Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 end-of-the-world novels – from Ballard to Pratchett

    Fresh from writing his own first sci fi thriller, physicist and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili chooses favourite books that tackle the Earth in peril

August 2016

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    Books blog
    'New' old books: the irresistible charm of authors' lost works

    They are often held back for good reason, but as forthcoming ‘new’ books from Michael Crichton, Beatrix Potter and JRR Tolkien show, we can’t get enough of them

June 2015

  • Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg on the set of The Lost World: Jurassic Park 2, in 1997

    Jurassic Park author's novel Micro set for DreamWorks adaptation

    Michael Crichton’s book about miniaturised students stuck in a rainforest to be made into a movie, with DreamWorks’ co-founder Steven Spielberg’s approval
  • Philip Oltermann

    The star of Jurassic World isn’t T-Rex. It’s Malcolm

    Philip Oltermann
    Don’t be fooled by the dinosaurs: the Jurassic films are really about chaos theory and the unpredictability of existence
  • Jurassic World: still scary, but changing with the times.

    Jurassic World review – Chris Pratt runs riot in upgraded dino-disaster movie

    Executive producer Steven Spielberg has got his dinosaur footprints all over this thoroughly entertaining fourth Jurassic Park instalment

March 2015

  • The Shawshank Redemption

    Books blog
    Are these the best book-to-film adaptations?

    A survey of 3,000 fans found Harry Potter and James Bond the UK’s favourite big-screen books. Help us come up with a less mainstream list

November 2013

  • Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

    Easy Go by Michael Crichton – review

    Originally published under the pseudonym John Lange, this tomb-robbing caper feels old-fashioned but it still manages to thrill, writes James Smart

September 2013

  • Jurassic Park 1993

    Jurassic World: a prehistoric franchise brought back from the dead

    Michael Moran
  • Infomania: Jurassic Park

    Jurassic Park 4 confirmed – and gets a new title

August 2013

  • JURASSIC PARK 2013

    Jurassic Park 3D – review

    Seeing Spielberg's dinosaur classic 20 years on casts it in a magical new light for Philip French

May 2013

  • Michael Crichton

    Out-of-print Michael Crichton novels set to be republished as ebooks

  • Alan Yuhas

    Dan Brown still can't write, but he deserves some respect

    Alan Yuhas

March 2013

  • Director Colin Trevorrow is taking the reins of Jurassic Park IV

    Jurassic Park IV snaffles Colin Trevorrow to direct

    Director of 2012 Sundance hit Safety Not Guaranteed will steer fourth instalment of Steven Spielberg's dinosaur saga

November 2012

  • Jurassic Park 3

    Trailer review
    Jurassic Park 3D: a dinosaur dressed as lamb?

    Stuart Heritage: In what is definitely not a cynical cash-in, the producers of Spielberg's scaly masterpiece are rereleasing it with all the latest cinematic gimmickry. The problem is, it's definitively a 2D film

May 2011

  • HOLBY CITY

    Case histories: the poetry of medicine

    From Keats to Michael Crichton there is a long tradition of doctor-writers. A Holby City fan and frequent literary awards panellist finds judging a prize for medical poems especially fascinating

February 2010

  • Author Michael Crichton's art collection goes under the hammer

    Late author of Jurassic Park left £20m worth of paintings including works by Jasper Johns, Picasso and Lichtenstein
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