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Michael crichton, the novelist and creative force behind jurassic park and the television series er, has died from cancer aged 66. The tyrannosaurus and the velociraptor, the most famous denizens of the park, lived much later, during the cretaceous period. A patient who appears to have been mauled is flown into a medical facility. For his 1990 classic, jurassic park, crichton claims he drew inspiration from works such as arthur conan doyles the lost world 1912. Michael crichton has 116 books on goodreads with 3342857 ratings. He said that when he read jurassic park he laughed all the way through it. Universal bought rights for a film version before the book was even published, and it has spawned multiple sequels, which have all been blockbusters in their own rights, as well as several video games and amusement park rides. Jurassic park by michael crichton, first edition abebooks. A cautionary tale about genetic engineering, it presents the collapse of an amusement. That films breakthrough special effects really brought dinosaurs back from extinction.
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