Book Preview From one of the best-loved authors of all time comes an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates in the New World, a classic story of treasure and betrayal. The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, … Read more
Book Preview Live out your fantasies for $1,000 a day at Westworld— the ultimate resort! Murder, violence, wild sexual abandon, any human desire is fulfilled by totally computerized, humanoid robots programed for your pleasure alone . . . Until a small computer casualty spreads like wildfire and one man stands alone against the berserk machines … Read more
Book Preview Resounding Praise for #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR “Michael Crichton is a master storyteller.” “The master of the high-concept techno- thriller . . . Crichton has the facile command for detail and for explaining complex technological matters in easy-to-grasp metaphors . . . He has a knock for plotting at megahertz speed.” … Read more
Book Preview To Barbara Rose Satan is glad— when I am bad, And hopes that I— with him shall lie In fire and chains— and dreadful pains Victorian child’s poem, 1856 “I wanted the money.” Edward Pierce, 1856 Introduction It is difficult, after the passage of more than a century, to understand the … Read more
Book Preview The Eaters of the Dead “Praise not the day until evening has come; a woman until she is burnt; a sword until it is tried; a maiden until she is married; ice until it has been crossed; beer until it has been drunk.” —VIKING PROVERB “Evil is of old date.” —ARAB … Read more
Book Preview Andromeda Evolution THIS FILE IS CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET Examination by unauthorized persons is a criminal offense punishable by fines and imprisonment up to 20 years and $250,000. DO NOT ACCEPT FROM COURIER IF SEAL IS BROKEN The courier is required by law to demand your card 7592. They are not permitted to relinquish … Read more
Book Preview PRAISE FOR MICHAEL CRICHTON AIRFRAME “The pacing is fast, the suspense nonstop.” —People “A one-sitting read that will cause a lifetime of white-knuckled nightmares” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “Dramatically vivid.” —The New York Times THE LOST WORLD “Fast and gripping.” —The Washington Post Book World “Action-packed.” —New York Daily … Read more
Book Preview MICHAELCRICHTON STATE OF FEAR A NOVEL This is a work of fiction. Characters, corporations, institutions, and organizations in this novel are the product of the author’s imagination, or, if real, are used fictitiously without any intent to describe their actual conduct. However, references to real people, institutions, and organizations that are documented in … Read more
Book Preview When a scientist views things, he’s not considering the incredible at all. You can’t fool nature. For a long time the horizon had been a monotonous flat blue line separating the Pacific Ocean from the sky. The Navy helicopter raced forward, flying low, near the waves. Despite the noise and the thumping vibration … Read more
Book Preview When a beautiful girl is found murdered on the forty-sixth floor of the new Nakamoto Towers building, Lieutenant Peter Smith of LAPD Special Services is called on to act as liaison between the department and the Japanese company, Nakamoto industries. He is aided by a somewhat disreputable captain who is on extended leave … Read more
Book Preview Within fifty to a hundred years, a new class of organisms is likely to emerge. These organisms will be artificial in the sense that they will originally be designed by humans. However, they will reproduce, and will “evolve” into something other than their original form; they will be “alive” under any reasonable definition … Read more
Book Preview Saturday, June Fourteenth Sunday, June Fifteenth Monday, June Sixteenth Tuesday, June Seventeenth Night, June Seventeenth Wednesday, June Eighteenth Thursday, June Nineteenth Friday, June Twentieth Afternoon, June Twentieth Saturday, June Twenty-First Afternoon, June Twenty-First Night, June Twenty-First Sunday, June Twenty-Second (12:00-1:00) Morning, June Twenty-Second (1:00-12:00) Afternoon, June Twenty-Second A Biography of Michael Crichton Read … Read more
Book Preview Epigraph MINUTE CREATURES swarm around us…objects of potentially endless study and admiration, if we are willing to sweep our vision down from the world lined by the horizon to include the world an arm’s length away. A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a tree. —E. O. … Read more
Book Preview Crichton is a master at blending edge-of-the-chair adventure and a scientific seminar, educating his readers as he entertains them.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch Crichton is a master at blending edge-of-the-chair adventure and a scientific seminar, educating his readers as he entertains them.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Crichton combines his knowledge of science with a great … Read more
Book Preview STARTING IN THE EARLY DAWN light, he had driven up into the mountains, leaving the flat sprawl of Kingston behind him. He had cut through the tiny mountain villages, the native huts perched precariously beside the road; then down through lush valleys of tropical vegetation, damp in the misty morning wetness; and finally … Read more
Book Preview Sale of this book without a front cover may be unauthorized. If this book is coverless, it may have been reported to the publisher as “unsold or destroyed” and neither the author nor the publisher may have received payment for it. Doctors and nurses are the only people who possibly can alter the … Read more
Book Preview Wer sich von diesem Buch schockiert oder beängstigt fühlt, soll sich doch nicht selbst täuschen – nichts davon war unbekannt. Das medizinische Studium des Gehirns wird seit einem Jahrhundert betrieben; die Technik, unsere Verhaltensweisen zu beeinflussen, entwickelt sich seit über fünfzig Jahren. Jahrzehntelang also sind diese Probleme aktuell; jeder konnte sich informieren, konnte … Read more
Book Preview Twenty years ago, my first experience with computers occurred while I was a student of William Howells at Harvard. Because Howells treated these machines with good sense and good humor, I did, too. Howells regarded computers as a useful, sometimes exasperating tool, but he felt that to indulge fears about them was a … Read more