Beware the Twisting Winds of Change ; Michael Crichton's New Thriller Is a Research-Based, Reactionary Attack On the Doom-Mongers of Global Warming - and It's Irritatingly Persuasive
Evening Standard - London › December 13, 2004
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PRINCE Charles appeared to have read Michael Crichton's thriller Prey, when he expressed fears last year that the world might be reduced to a mess of "grey goo" by out-of-control nanotechnology. But His Royal Highness won't like Crichton's new novel, State of Fear. It's a thoroughly researched attack on ecological activists, specifically those engaged in raising fears of global warming.
Crichton, one of the most commercially successful novelists, is master of the predictive thriller. His first book, The Andromeda Strain, published back in 1969, imagined the arrival of a lethal virus from space.See the full content of this document
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Beware the Twisting Winds of Change ; Michael Crichton's New Thriller Is a Research-Based, Reactionary Attack On the Doom-Mongers of Global Warming - and It's Irritatingly Persuasive
In Westworld (1973), he invented a theme park in which tourists could enact their fantasies. In Jurassic Park, he brought dinosaurs back to life.
In Disclosure, he tackled sexual harassment law; in Rising Sun, Japanese economic imperialism; in Airframe, aviation safety. Al...See the full content of this document
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