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About Michael Crichton
American author and filmmaker
John Michael Crichton was an American author and filmmaker. He is best known for novels and screen stories that blend science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction, and for work that sold more than 200 million copies worldwide. His fiction often examines technology, biotechnology, and the effort to control nature, usually with dangerous or disastrous results. Many of his books draw on medical or scientific ideas, and several focus on genetic modification, hybridization, paleontology, or zoology.
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Books by Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park
1991
The Lost World
1996
Prey
2002
Airframe
1996
Timeline
1999