“It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.”

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.