reason.com - 11/6/2008
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Pop novelist, television producer, movie director, medical doctor, creator of the long-running hospital drama E.R., and sometime public-policy provocateur Michael Crichton has died of cancer at age 66 in Los Angeles. Crichton's books have sold more than 150 million copies worldwide. His ...
etonline.com - 11/5/2008
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etonline.com —
Prolific novelist and "ER" creator Michael Crichton has
passed away. He was 66. Perhaps best known for
being the author of Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World , which were turned into a hugely successful movie franchise, his numerous books ...
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Author Michael Crichton Has 'Died Unexpectedly'
cbs2chicago.com - 11/5/2008
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cbs2chicago.com —
'Jurassic Park' Author Michael Crichton Dead At 66
Family Cites Writer's Private Battle Against Cancer NEW YORK
(CBS News) ― Best-selling author and filmaker Michael Crichton died unexpectedly in Los Angeles Tuesday, after a courageous and private ...
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'Jurassic Park' Autho, 'ER' Creator Michael Crichton ...
blogs.discovermagazine.com - 11/10/2008
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blogs.discovermagazine.com —
andromeda strain Given the recent death of best-selling
author and sci-fi pioneer Michael Crichton, we thought it
was the perfect time to reflect on some of his most innovative and fascinating ideas…that just happened to have come true. 5. Talking ...
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The Top 5 “Crazy” Michael Crichton Ideas ...
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The Rich, Mixed Legacy of Michael Crichton
Wired: Wired Science —
... Indeed, Ronald Bailey of Reason takes Crichton to task in his obituary for precisely that reason,
criticizing him for exploiting and overhyping the ways in which
science might turn on its masters. And Gavin Schmidt, Hansen's colleague at Columbia University, describes Crichton's depictions of scientists as "consistently negative, feeding the old Frankenstein stereotype updated to more modern concerns.... Given the importance of science in many of the key policy decisions that will be made in the coming years, that is very unfortunate." ...
SF Tidbits for 11/10/08
SF Signal —
Locus Online has an online PDF version of Locus Magazine's October 2008 issue.
Locus Online also notes these remembrances of Michael Crichton: USA Today, Mark Steyn, Michael Berry in San Francisco Chronicle, Alan Cooperman in Washington Post, Ronald Bailey in Reason, and Dave Itzkoff in New York Times, who says Crichton was "too big for the 25-cent bin of genre fiction". Way to warm the cockles of our collective heart, Itzkoff.
In the ...
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The family of Michael Crichton, the million-selling author of such historic and prehistoric science fantasies as Jurassic Park, Timeline and The Andromeda Strain, told the Associated Press that the author has died in Los Angeles.
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