“Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.”

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.