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November
15, 2008
WCL remembers Michael Crichton 10/23/1942-11/4/2008
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by Michael Crichton
Crichton
again focuses on genetic engineering in this thriller, but this time
the science is more believable than creating dinosaurs from DNA. In
an ambitious effort to show what's wrong with the U.S.'s current
handling of gene patents and with the laws governing human tissues,
the author interweaves many plot strands, one involving a California
researcher, Henry Kendall, who has mixed human and chimp DNA while
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Airframe
by Michael Crichton
Cruising
35,000 feet above the earth, a twin-engine commercial jet encounters
an accident that leaves 3 dead, 56 wounded, and the cabin in
shambles. What happened? With a multi-billion-dollar company-saving
deal on the line, Casey Singleton is sent by her hard-driving boss
to uncover the mysterious circumstances that led to the disaster
before more people die.
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Eaters
of the Dead
by Michael Crichton
In
this book, the amazing Michael Crichton presents the manuscript (922
A.D.) of an Arab, Ibn Fadlan, emissary of a Caliph who recorded his
three-years among the Northmen with the "tone of a tax auditor,
not a bard, an anthropologist, not a dramatist." It is of
course much livelier than that and accompanied with assorted
annotations and scholarly paraphernalia (mostly for real) which thin
the lines between truth and fabrication to mere wisps of conjecture
rising from those dread black mists filled with the eaters of the
dead.
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