Bücher von Michael Crichton

On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now one of mankind's most thrilling fantasies has come true and the first dinosaurs that the Earth has seen in the time of man emerge. But there is a dark side to the fantasy.

It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end - the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. But there are rumours that something survived.

An old man is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got to be there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. So begins the mystery that will catapult a group of young scientists back to the Middle Ages.

Crichtons ultimate adventure.San Francisco ChroniclePirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action.A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure.USA TodayRiveting.Great entertainment.The pages and minutes fly by.Cleveland Plain Dealer#1 New York Times bestselling author, the incomparable Michael Crichton (One of the great storytellers of our age Newsday) takes to the high Caribbean seas for an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates, lost treasure, sword fights, duplicity, and hair-breadth escapes in the New World.

In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles?micro-robots?has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive.It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has failed.And we are the prey.

In Jurassic Park, he created a terrifying new world. Now, in Micro, Michael Crichton reveals a universe too small to see and too dangerous to ignore.In a locked Honolulu office building, three men are found dead, covered in ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed robot. In the lush forests of Oahu, trillions of microorganisms are being discovered, feeding a search for priceless drugs. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students are recruited by a microbiology start-up and dispatched to a mysterious lab in Hawaii. There they are promised access to tools that will open a whole new scientific frontier.But once in the Oahu rain forest, the scientists are thrust into a hostile wilderness where they find themselves prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power. To survive, they must harness the inherent forces of nature itself.An instant classic, Micro pits nature against technology in vintage Crichton fashion. Completed by visionary science writer Richard Preston, this boundary-pushing thriller melds scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction to create yet another masterpiece of sophisticated, cutting-edge entertainment.

1967 stürzte eine unbemannte US-Raumsonde über Arizona ab. An Bord befand sich ein außerirdischer Mikroorganismus, der jeden getötet hat, der damit in Kontakt kam. Ein Team aus den besten Wissenschaftlern schaffte es, die Verbreitung des Organismus, den sie Andromeda getauft hatten, zu verhindern. In der Fairchild Air Force Base wacht seither das Project Eternal Vigilance über die Erde: Es soll beim geringsten Anzeichen eines Andromeda-Ausbruchs losschlagen können. Jetzt, nach Jahrzehnten ohne einen Zwischenfall, steht die Task Force kurz vor dem Aus. Da entdeckt eine Drohne mitten im brasilianischen Dschungel die chemische Signatur Andromedas. Doch der extraterrestrische Organismus hat sich weiterentwickelt - zu einer noch tödlicheren Gefahr für die Menschheit ...

Der Ursprung von Jurassic ParkWyoming 1875: So wie die Erde unter den donnernden Büffelherden des noch wilden Westens bebt, wird die Welt von der Entdeckung einer noch größeren, viel älteren Naturgewalt erschüttert. Fossile Funde belegen: Einst müssen riesige Urzeitwesen die Erde bevölkert haben - die Dinosaurier. Damit rückt ein wenig beachteter, aber revolutionärer Wissenschaftszweig, die Paläontologie, ins Licht der Öffentlichkeit. Der lebensgefährliche Wettlauf zweier Wissenschaftler: Nach einer wahren Geschichte ersann Michael Crichton einen seiner ersten Thriller - entstanden 1974 und erst unlängst veröffentlicht - um Gier, Obsession und den Anfang einer neuen Zeit.

In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor.In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications.In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters off New Guinea.And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means.Thus begins Michael Crichton's exciting and provocative techno-thriller State of Fear. Only Crichton's unique ability to blend scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction could bring such disparate elements to such a heart-stopping conclusion.

Welcome to our genetic world.Fast, furious, and out of control.This is not the world of the future?it's the world right now.Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blonds becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only four hundred genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction?is it worse than the disease?We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies. We live in a time when one-fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else?and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes....The future is closer than you think.

?Crichton keeps us guessing at every turn in his best work since The Andromeda Strain.??Los Angeles TimesIn the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old. But even more fantastic?and frightening?is what waits inside . . .?A page-turner with oomph. . . . Crichton's writing is cinematic, with powerful visual images and nonstop action.??Newsweek?Sphere may be Crichton's best novel, but even if it ranked only second or third, it would be a must for suspense fans.??Miami Herald

It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end—the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, and the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has survived. . . . 

Michael Crichtons Prey is a terrifying page-turner that masterfully combines a heartpounding thriller with cutting-edge technology.Deep in the Nevada desert, the Xymos Corporation has built a state-of-the-art fabrication plant, surrounded by miles and miles of nothing but cactus and coyotes. Eight people are trapped. A self-replicating swarm of predatory molecules is rapidly evolving outside the plant. Massed together, the molecules form an intelligent organism that is anything but benign. More powerful by the hour, it has targeted the eight scientists as prey. They must stop the swarm before it is too lateIn Prey, Michael Crichton combines scientific brilliance with relentless pacing to create an electrifying, chilling techno-thriller