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	Michael Crichton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Michael Crichton was born on October 23, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois to John Henderson Crichton and Zula Miller Crichton, and raised in Roslyn, Long Island, New York.
		Crichton admitted to plagiarizing when he was on the stand in the course of a lawsuit trying to defend the authenticity of Twister, a movie which one individual claimed was based on his story entitled "Catch the Wind".
		Crichton used the Latin expression "falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus", which he translated as "untruthful in one part, untruthful in all", to describe what he thought a more appropriate reaction should be.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Crichton (2492 words)

	Crichton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The surname Crichton is a Scottish surname derived from the Gaelic word crioch, which means border, and the Old English word tune which means farm or settlement.
		Crichton Park, a neighborhood in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
		Crichton Street Public School, an elementary school in the New Edinburgh neighborhood of Ottawa, Canada.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crichton (171 words)

	Michael_Crichton
		Crichton has admitted to once plagiarizing a work by George Orwell and submitting it as his own.
		Crichton admitted to plagiarizing when he was on the stand in the course of a lawsuit trying to defend the authenticity of Twister, a movie which one individual claimed was based on their story entitled "Catch the Wind".
		A common criticism of Crichton's novels is that they are generally based on the conceit of a "false revolution": while the novels describe potentially world-changing concepts such as alien plagues, cloned dinosaurs, and time travel, the books always end with the threat destroyed or the scientific breakthrough lost.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/michael_crichton.html (2287 words)

	Michael Crichton's new screed. By Bryan Curtis
		Crichton described his human characters as a field biologist describes a giraffe: "He was surprisingly tall, maybe a hundred and ninety centimeters, well over six feet." Crichton's marauding adventurers were invariably white men with advanced degrees—paleontologists, psychologists, lawyers.
		Crichton's early novels were escapist fantasies that happened to be instructive.
		Crichton is like a college professor who insists on lecturing 10 minutes after the class period ends, when his students are edging toward the door.
	www.slate.com /id/2110815 (1320 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Crichton's climate fear contention
		Crichton, most famous as the author of The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park and creator of TV series ER, told the BBC World Service that he began to look into the subject after reading an article and feeling it "didn't make very much sense".
		And Crichton said that he had looked at evidence from temperature records and considered that, "It wasn't anywhere near as impressive as I thought it would be".
		Crichton said that his own agenda came from what he believed to be fact, that "almost every aspect of environmental thought has attached to it a political tag...
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/4105327.stm (622 words)

	Michael Crichton
		Michael Crichton will probably be best known for his novel Jurassic Park [1990], which became a blockbuster movie, pioneering the use of digitally created characters.
		Crichton takes a pretty hard skeptical line about whether warming is occurring at all and gives a fair amount of detail about it in the book.
		What concerns Crichton most particularly are instances, as at the beginning of the book, where research results actually have been slanted and misstated, sometimes by bureaucrats without the knowledge of the scientists involved in the research.
	www.friesian.com /crichton.htm (3633 words)

	Amazon.com: Prey: Books: Michael Crichton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In Prey, bestselling author Michael Crichton introduces bad guys that are too small to be seen with the naked eye but no less deadly or intriguing than the runaway dinosaurs that made 1990's Jurassic Park such a blockbuster success.
		Michael Crichton takes us back to the complex world of computer technology in his latest book, a non-stop page-turner about a cloud of nanoparticles -- manmade micromachines -- that have escaped (or were they released?) from a laboratory in the Nevada desert and proceed to raise all kinds of mayhem.
		Crichton is at his best when he writes about abstruse scientific and technical concepts in such a way that even the most hopeless techno-nitwit (like this reviewer) can understand what he's talking about.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0061015725?v=glance (2513 words)

	Michael Crichton and Global Warming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The plot of Crichton's 14th novel is notable mainly for its nuttiness—an MIT professor fights a wellfunded network of eco-terrorists trying to kill thousands by creating spectacular "natural" disasters.
		Crichton rejects many of the conclusions reached by the National Academy of Sciences and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—for example, he does not believe that global temperature increases in recent decades are most likely the result of human activities.
		Crichton is especially harsh in his portrayal of other members of the Hollywood elite, though his critique extends more broadly to the news media, intelligentsia and general public.
	www.brookings.edu /views/op-ed/fellows/sandalow20050128.htm (337 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Michael Crichton
		A common criticism of Crichton's work is that they are generally based on the conceit of a "false revolution" -- while the novels describe potentially world-changing concepts such as alien plagues, cloned dinosaurs, and time travel, the books always end with the threat destroyed or the scientific breakthrough lost.
		Crichton has been critical of widespread belief of ETs and UFOs, despite the fact that there is no conclusive proof of their existence.
		Crichton cites what he contends are misconceptions about DDT, second-hand smoke and global warming as examples.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Michael_Crichton (2003 words)

	RealClimate » Michael Crichton’s State of Confusion L’état de confusion de Michael Crichton
		Michael Crichton's new novel "State of Fear" is about a self-important NGO hyping the science of the global warming to further the ends of evil eco-terrorists.
		Crichton next raises the apparently unrecognised (by the lawyer character at least) fact that the interior of Antarctica is cooling (p196), an issue discussed in another post (Antarctica cooling, global warming?).
		Michael Crichton's guess of ~0.8 degrees Celsius for the 21st century is far, far better than the IPCC projections of 1.5 to 5.8 degrees Celsius (from 1990 to 2100).
	www.realclimate.org /index.php?p=74 (19512 words)

	RealClimate » Michael Crichton’s State of Confusion II: Return of the Science
		Our first post on Crichton's new novel "State of Fear" hits most of the key points, though there are a few more errors in the book that we hope to expand upon in future posts.
		Crichton would have been well served if he had read this tutorial on the distinction between the two, or perhaps this one and especially, this one.
		Crichton also had an article in the December 5 Parade (Included in many Sunday papers) promoting his book and lambasting "scientific predictions of doom." He claimed, once again, that there were widespred predictions of doom from a cooling planet made in the 1970s.
	www.realclimate.org /index.php?p=76 (6354 words)

	A review of the distorted plot and politics in Michael Crichton's State of Fear \| By David Roberts \| Grist Magazine \| ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Michael Crichton's State of Fear is an attempt to meld serious politico-scientific critique with a modern techno-thriller.
		Crichton's novel, alas, is unilluminating as a critique and unsatisfying as a thriller.
		Crichton's Jurassic Park, for instance, freaks us out not because we think velociraptors wait around the next corner, but because the use of genetics really does seem to be heading in creepy directions.
	www.grist.org /advice/books/2005/02/01/roberts-fear (1325 words)

	Michael Crichton Library: Michael Crichton Books, Biography, News
		Michael Crichton was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 23, 1942.
		Michael, a long-time supporter of The Gorilla Foundation, has joined the Board of Directors.The Gorilla Foundation, established in 1976, has revolutionized our understanding of gorillas and ourselves.
		Michael Crichton's new novel opens on the threshold of the twenty-first century.
	www.ebookcrossroads.com /michael-crichton.html (1228 words)

	Curious Cat Michael Crichton Books
		Michael Crichton's books make great reading while you fly, ride or sail to your next vacation.
		Michael Crichton, Harvard-trained physician, bestselling author, movie director, relates his experiences from swimming with sharks in Tahiti to psychic experiences in the American desert.
		Michael Crichton takes a look at venerable Massachusetts General, giving firsthand accounts of five true and poignant cases.
	curiouscat.com /books/crichton.cfm (401 words)

	Alibris: Michael Crichton
		Michael Crichton does it again with "Prey, " a terrifying page-turner that masterfully combines the elements of a heart-pounding thriller with cutting-edge technology.
		Crichton's first novel was written while he was a medical student at Harvard and published when he was only 26 years old.
		Unrelated to the Michael Crichton novel and film of the same name (which, incidentally, are named in homage to this...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Crichton,Michael (1108 words)

	Amazon.com: State of Fear: Books: Michael Crichton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Crichton dramatizes his message by way of a frantic chase to prevent environmental terrorists from wreaking widespread destruction aimed at galvanizing the world against global warming.
		Michael Crichton has always used the latent but, in his view, underappreciated dangers associated with scientific advancement as a theme in his books (microbiology in The Andromeda Strain, genetic engineering in Jurassic park, and so on).
		Michael Crichton's newest action adventure novel is a fast paced thriller that informs and educates the reader while it entertains.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0066214130?v=glance (2737 words)

	Michael Crichton
		Michael Crichton is probably one of the most well-known authors alive today.
		Michael Crichton saw the need for an easy-to-understand guide explaining the new world of computers to "regular people." Electronic Life was created as a layman's guide to computers.
		Crichton, who has known Johns and collected his work for more than twenty years, offers a dazzling succession of intimate glimpses of John's potent and seemingly contradictory aspects, many of them highlighted by interviews with the artist, his dealers, and distinguished contemporary critics.
	www.vectornut.com /authors/MichaelCrichton.html (2362 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Magazine \| Crichton's conspiracy theory
		In Michael Crichton's State of Fear, I'd say the connection was purely intentional.
		Crichton's trade is to bring pleasurable terror to millions by spinning tales of science gone amok - as in Jurassic Park and the Andromeda Strain.
		Crichton's is not actually a thesis that the displaced folks in Louisiana and Texas can concentrate on at the moment in the wake of Katrina and Rita.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/4319574.stm (2423 words)

	Prey - Michael Crichton
		Crichton bravely makes the miniscule the bad guys in Prey -- but after his oversized Jurassic-success apparently isn't satisfied with merely making them characters that are seen through their effects.
		Crichton provides a two and a half page bibliography of serious titles, many of which he no doubt relied upon in researching his book -- but the science remains at the Sunday-supplement level.
		Crichton also isn't too great with the characters -- and he is especially clumsy in his handling of human interactions, including using far too many telephone calls (Jack keeping in touch with family and the like).
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/popus/crichtm.htm (2852 words)

	Michael Crichton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As fresh as today’s headlines, Michael Crichton’s most compelling novel yet tells the story of a mechanical plague and the desperate efforts of a handful of scientists to stop it.
		Crichton’s knack for characterization, combined with his impeccable research, persuades the reader that the tale is dangerously close to becoming reality - and therefore ensures that Prey will invade your nightmares for a long time to come.’ Time Out
		Michael Crichton was born in Chicago in 1942.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/michaelcrichton.html (522 words)

	NRDC: Michael Crichton's State of Fear: They Don't Call It Science Fiction for Nothing
		That’s what’s happening with State of Fear, in which Crichton builds a fantasy world where global warming is not a real threat, but global warming scientists are.
		Crichton for the opportunity to set the record straight about the very real dangers of global warming and to spotlight the real debate: how will we act to solve this problem?
		A summary of these and other findings from the past few years, including information on arctic melting, hurricane intensity, air pollution, and other consequences can be found here.
	www.nrdc.org /globalWarming/fcrichton.asp (1048 words)

	Michael Crichton Is Right! - by Joseph L. Bast - The Heartland Institute
		Crichton is careful not to accuse all environmentalists of being insincere.
		It is not so much that Crichton is being reactionary; rather, his view offends our almost religious veneration of green issues, a faith in mother earth which holds that driving to the bottle bank in a belching 4x4 is a profound act of worship.
		Crichton is not a scientist, but he has accurately summarized their findings in a book that will reach millions of readers in the coming months, and tens of millions in the coming years.
	www.heartland.org /Article.cfm?artId=16260 (3833 words)

	Michael Crichton: From Scientist to Novelist
		Crichton is also the creator of the television series E.R. If what you liked is Crichton's style, I guess you could try other books by him.
		When Crichton published The Andromeda Strain, he was a young scientist (a medical doctor) writing a book about a scientific problem.
		The characters, for example, are much more complete, even though their personalities are taken to such extremes that they are almost caricatures -- Beth, a caricature of a feminist; Harry, a caricature of a depressed child; and so on.
	www.forum2.org /tal/books/crichton.html (1429 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Prey: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In Prey, bestselling author Michael Crichton introduces bad guys that are too small to be seen with the naked eye but who are no less deadly or intriguing than the runaway dinosaurs that made 1990's Jurassic Park such a blockbuster success.
		Crichton is a great story-teller and the focus here is really on telling that story.
		Crichton does stretch the story a little by endlessly rambling on about technical facts and scientific terms which becomes a little boring after a while since he repeats the same things over and over again.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0007154534 (1492 words)

	IGN: Featured Filmmaker: Michael Crichton
		Born on October 23, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, Crichton (pronounced "kry-ton") was encouraged by his parents to be a writer, although he eventually gravitated toward medicine and attended Harvard Medical School.
		Crichton's next fictional foray would prove to be his defining one – as well as the first to appear under his real name – 1969's science fiction thriller The Andromeda Strain, which was quickly snapped up by Hollywood and turned into a hit film two years later by director Robert Wise.
		Crichton, making his directorial debut, gets great mileage out of his stars – Richard Benjamin (as a mild-mannered tourist), James Brolin (as his wannabe tough-guy buddy), and Yul Brynner (brilliantly parodying his role in The Magnificent Seven as an insane gunslinging android) – as well as his endlessly imaginative plot inventions.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/403/403447p1.html (1271 words)

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