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A Case of Need |
*A Case of Need is Michael Crichton's award-winning debut novel, written shortly
after he completed his medical internship. Set against the ever-building pressure and pace of a large
Boston medical center, the tensions flare-and explode-when a surgical operation tragically ends in
death, raising countless questions. Was it accidental malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic
oath? Or cold-blooded murder?
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The Andromeda Strain |
*Four American scientists, chosen in advance for their experimental achievements in
the fields of clinical microbiology, epidemiology, pathology, and electrolyte chemistry, are summoned
under conditions of total news blackout and utmost urgency to Wildfire's secret laboratory five
stories beneath the Nevada desert.
There — surrounded by banks of the most sophisticated
computer-assisted equipment, and sealed off from the outside world except for a telecommunications
link with the national security apparatus — they work against the threat of a worldwide epidemic to
find an antidote to the unknown microorganism that has inexplicably killed all but two inhabitants
(an elderly derelict and an infant) of the tiny Arizona town where the satellite was retrieved. Step
by step they begin to unravel the puzzle of the Andromeda Strain, until, terrifyingly, their
microbacterial "adversary" ruptures the hypersterile seal of the laboratory and their already
desperate search for a biomedical answer becomes a split-second race against an atomic deadline.
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The Andromeda
Evolution |
The Evolution is Coming.
In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race.
Accidental exposure to the particle—designated The Andromeda Strain—killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man
and an infant boy. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic
of unimaginable proportions. In the moments before a catastrophic nuclear detonation, they succeeded.
In the ensuing decades, research on the
microparticle continued. And the world thought it was safe…
Deep inside Fairchild Air Force Base, Project Eternal Vigilance has continued to
watch and wait for the Andromeda Strain to reappear. On the verge of being shut down, the project has registered no activity—until now. A Brazilian
terrain-mapping drone has detected a bizarre anomaly of otherworldly matter in the middle of the jungle, and, worse yet, the tell-tale chemical signature
of the deadly microparticle.
With this shocking discovery, the next-generation Project Wildfire is activated, and a diverse team of experts hailing
from all over the world is dispatched to investigate the potentially apocalyptic threat.
But the microbe is growing—evolving. And if the Wildfire
team can’t reach the quarantine zone, enter the anomaly, and figure out how to stop it, this new Andromeda Evolution will annihilate all life as we know it. |
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Five Patients |
In this incisive, detailed survey of five patients, famous thriller author and
doctor Michael Crichton explores the dramatic workings of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston's
oldest and most prestigious. This readable account covers not only the history of the hospital's
place in society, but also the actual minute-to-minute functions of Mass General, where health
professionals wage their daily battle against disease and death.
Crichton's insightful look at
the changes in medicine and surgery caused by technological strides of recent years makes for amazing
reading.
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The Terminal Man |
*Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. When he becomes part of an experimental
program that sends electrodes to his brain to calm him, he is in recovery.
Until he discovers
how to get those soothing pulses more frequently, and then escapes the hospital--on a murderous
rampage with a deadly agenda.
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The Great Train Robbery |
*In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side
by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the
crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring
theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery
aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively
as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic
caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite—yet nonetheless explosive.
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Eaters of the Dead |
*It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of
Viking warriors back to the north. Fadlan belatedly discovers that his job is to combat the terrors
in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings—but just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea.
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Congo |
*Deep in the heart of the darkest region of the Congo, an eight-person field dies
mysteriously and brutally in a matter of minutes.
Ten thousand miles away, at the Houston-based
Earth Resources Technology Services, Inc., supervisor Karen Ross watches a gruesome video transmission
of that ill-fated team: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud
alongside bodies and — the grainy, moving image of a dark, blurred shape.
In San Francisco,
tologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with a 620 "sign" vocabulary and a fondness for finger
painting. Her recent drawing matches, with stunning accuracy, the frayed, brittle pages of a
Portuguese print dating back to 1642 — a drawing of an ancient lost city. Immediately, a new
expedition is sent into the Congo, descending into a secret world. where the only way out may be
through the grisliest death.
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Sphere |
*In the middle of the South Pacific, 1,000 feet below the surface, a huge spaceship
is discovered resting on the ocean floor. It is a craft of phenomenal dimensions, it seems undamaged
by its fall from the sky, and it appears to be at least three hundred years old. Rushed to the scene
is a group of American scientists who investigate this astonishing discovery. What they find defies
imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation.
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Travels |
Here is a record of Michael Crichton's astonishing adventures. It is a vision of
travel not as escape but as exhilaration, as a testing of self, and as spiritual education. Crichton
shows us travel as turmoil and as peace. All of this voyages, outward and inward, from his twenties to
his mid-forties, have been journeys into awareness—leading him to the excitement and benison of
direct experience undimmed by expectations, theories, or old assumptions. His remarkable book is in
itself a fascinating realm in which the adventurous are invited to travel.
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Jurassic Park |
*An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been
discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam Jurassic Park, soon-to-be opened as a theme park. Until
something goes wrong... and science proves a dangerous toy.
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Rising Sun |
*During the grand opening celebration of the new American headquarters of an
immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body of a beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins,
and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue and a violent
business battle that takes no prisoners.
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Disclosure |
*Tom Sanders is an up-and-coming executive at the computer firm DigiCom. When his
new boss turns out to be a woman who is both his former lover and a business rival, Sanders determines
to be professional. But after a closed-door meeting, the woman accuses him of sexual harassment. It's
her word against his, and suddenly Sanders finds himself caught in a nightmarish web of deceit in
which he is branded as the villain. As he scrambles to save his career and his reputation, Sanders
uncovers an electronic trail into DigiCom's secrets.
And the cynical scheme devised to bring
him down.
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The Lost World |
*It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since
that extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end - the dinosaurs destroyed,
the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has
survived.
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Airframe |
*Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually
destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane... At a moment when the issue of safety and death
in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal mid-air disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet
airliner bound for Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation.
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Timeline |
In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense.
Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway
around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept
off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding
technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it. And with
history opened to the present, the dead awakened to the living, these men and women will soon find
themselves fighting for their very survival–six hundred years ago.
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Prey |
*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.
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. Drawing on
up-to-the-minute scientific fact, Prey takes us into the emerging realms of nanotechnology and
artificial distributed intelligence — in a story of breathtaking suspense. Prey is a novel you can't
put down.
Because time is running out. |
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State of Fear |
*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 a heart-stopping conclusion. This is Crichton's most wide-ranging thriller. State of Fear takes the
reader from the glaciers of Iceland to the volcanoes of Antarctica, from the Arizona desert to the deadly
jungles of the Solomon Islands, from the streets of Paris to the beaches of Los Angeles. The novel races
forward on a roller-coaster thrill ride, all the while keeping the brain in high gear. Gripping and
thought provoking, State of Fear is Michael Crichton at his very best. |
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Next |
*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
blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees
differ in only 400 genes; is that why an adult human being resembles a chimp fetus? 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; test our spouses for genetic maladies and even frame someone for a genetic
crime.
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.
Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a
breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and a set of new possibilities can open
at every turn. Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and
bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions, and reveals
shocking new choices where we least expect.
The future is closer than you think. Get used to it. |
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Pirate Latitudes |
*The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds
out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, its capital, is a cutthroat town of
taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses.
In this steamy climate there's a living to be made, a living
that can end swiftly by disease, or by dagger. For Captain Charles Hunter, gold in Spanish hands is gold for
the taking, and the law of the land rests with those ruthless enough to make it.
Word in port is that
the galleon El Trinidad, fresh from New Spain, is awaiting repairs in a nearby harbor. Heavily fortified,
the impregnable harbor is guarded by the blood thirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king
himself. With backing from a powerful ally, Hunter assembles a crew of ruffians to infiltrate the enemy
outpost and commandeer El Trinidad, along with its fortune in Spanish gold. The raid is as perilous as the
bloodiest tales of island legend, and Hunter will lose more than one man before he even sets foot on foreign
shores, where dense jungle and the firepower of Spanish infantry stand between him and the treasure. . . .
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Micro: A Novel |
*In a locked Honolulu office building, three men are found dead with no sign of struggle
except for the ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed
robot, nearly invisible to the human eye.
In the lush forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology has
ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Trillions of microorganisms, tens of thousands of
bacteria species, are being discovered; they are feeding a search for priceless drugs and applications on a
scale beyond anything previously imagined.
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students at the
forefront of their fields are recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up. Nanigen MicroTechnologies
dispatches the group to a mysterious lab in Hawaii, where 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 that reveals profound and surprising dangers at every turn. Armed only with their
knowledge of the natural world, they find themselves prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power. To
survive, they must harness the inherent forces of nature itself.
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Dragon Teeth: A Novel |
The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America’s western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark
the landscape. In much of the country it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild
West, hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars.
Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled William Johnson, a Yale student with more privilege than sense. Determined to survive a
summer in the west to win a bet against his arch-rival, William has joined world-renowned paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh on his latest expedition.
But when the paranoid and secretive Marsh becomes convinced that William is spying for his nemesis, Edwin Drinker Cope, he abandons him in Cheyenne, Wyoming,
a locus of crime and vice. William is forced to join forces with Cope and soon stumbles upon a discovery of historic proportions. With this extraordinary
treasure, however, comes exceptional danger, and William’s newfound resilience will be tested in his struggle to protect his cache, which pits him against
some of the West’s most notorious characters.
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