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7 unusual facts about Michael Crichton


Cearadactylus

Cearadactylus was featured in the Jurassic Park novel by Michael Crichton, in which they attack Alan Grant, Tim Murphy and Lex Murphy when they wander into the aviary.

Great Gold Robbery

Michael Crichton's novel The Great Train Robbery and subsequent feature film presents a cinematic version of the event, portraying Pierce (played by Sean Connery), as a gentleman master criminal who eventually escapes.

Jonathan Alexander

He studied computer science at UCLA, and began his career writing software for author Michael Crichton.

Lindstradt air rifle

The Lindstradt air rifle is a fictional rifle made in Sweden used in Michael Crichton's novel The Lost World, and in the novel's film adaptation The Lost World: Jurassic Park directed by Steven Spielberg.

Peter Doran

Because he and his colleagues found that some parts of Antarctica had cooled between 1964 and 2000, his paper has been frequently cited by opponents of the global warming theory, such as Ann Coulter and Michael Crichton.

Rotten Row

Michael Crichton's 1979 feature film, The First Great Train Robbery, is set in 1855, and includes a scene in which the character Edward Pierce (portrayed by Sean Connery) escorts Emily Trent (Pamela Salem) on a supposedly romantic ride along Rotten Row.

Western Behavioral Sciences Institute

Student participants included CEOs of major corporations, high-ranking U.S. Army generals, scientists, renowned writers and other professionals including Paul Funk, Barry McCaffrey, Gloria Feldt, Donald B. Straus, Marlon Brando, Wesley Clark, Michael Crichton, Wayne Peterson and many others.


Cosmo Oro

The series reduced substantially in quality and frequency of publication in the 2000s, and ceased publication with issue #203 in April 2002 (The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton).

Cryptofiction

Examples include works by Jules Verne (The Mysterious Island), Arthur Conan Doyle (The Lost World), and Edgar Rice Burroughs (The Land That Time Forgot), and recent fiction such as Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park) and Steve Alten (the Meg series and The Loch).

George Poinar, Jr.

He is known for popularizing the idea of extracting DNA from insects fossilized in amber, an idea which received widespread attention when adapted by Michael Crichton for the book and movie Jurassic Park.

Ivar Ekeland

Ekeland's exposition provided mathematical inspiration to Michael Crichton's discussion of chaos in Jurassic Park.

Malia Scotch Marmo

She wrote the screenplays for Lasse Hallström's first American film, Once Around, Steven Spielberg's Hook, Daisy von Scherler Mayer's Madeline and co-adapted (with David Koepp) Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park into Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park.

Philip Kaufman

His movies have adapted novels of widely different types – from Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being to Michael Crichton’s Rising Sun; from Tom Wolfe’s heroic epic The Right Stuff to the erotic writings of Anaïs Nin’s Henry & June.

Sterno

In Michael Crichton's 1969 novel "The Andromeda Strain" and the 1971 movie based on it, one of the survivors of the deadly extraterrestrial virus is an old man who utilizes "Squeeze" along with aspirin to alleviate the pain caused by a bleeding ulcer diagnosed two years prior to the "Piedmont Incident".

Utility fog

More recent science fiction novels have explored the possible consequences of the emergence of this technology, e.g., Michael Crichton's Prey (2002), or incorporated this technology as part of the story universe, e.g. Hannu Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief (2010).


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