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...executive John A. Armstrong '56 and Michael Crichton '64, author of the science fiction novel The Andromeda Strain, which described high-tech efforts to battle a mutating extraterrestrial virus, showed a particular interest in the use of computers for teaching, one overseer said...
...Michael Crichton...
...least for the purpose of this new techno-thriller, his best by far since The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton accepts the charge that genetic research these days is a headlong, unregulated profit-and-glory grab by microbiologists with more skill than wisdom. Suppose, says Crichton, that a respectable paleozoologist (call him Alan Grant) begins to get increasingly detailed queries from a secretive corporate donor about what infant dinosaurs ate. Grant sends in his best guess. More questions follow, and they have a ring of urgency. What is this...
...Crichton's sci-fi is convincingly detailed. He has the cloning process begin not with ground-up fossils (too much DNA deterioration) but with dinosaur blood sucked by mosquito-like insects caught and preserved in amber. As is traditional in such narrations, there is an arrogant technician, who in this case claims that the park's dinosaurs can't breed because all have been sterilized. And as usual there is a relentlessly cheerful p.r. man. He settles the question of what dinosaurs eat; one of the big carnivores eats him. Then things really go wrong. Dinosaurs, it develops, are much...
BEST THRILLS: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton -- Things go awry when scientists populate a theme park with bioengineered dinosaurs. The Power by James Mills -- From the author of The Panic in Needle Park. Spy Sinker by Len Deighton -- A plot to bring down East Germany: good idea...