There is a friendly science fiction, a fantasy easily assumed for every reader. Michael crichton he was the author in charge of making that happen. Any of the novels by this best-selling genius offered you a remote escape, but at the same time it presented you with recognizable environments, situations easily assimilated to your surroundings.
It sounds easy, but it is not. When you intend to narrate from the close to the esoteric or remote, the stridency can appear at any time. And there is nothing worse than a reading in which you suddenly feel that something is forced. Good old Crichton did it.
With this presentation it is easy to intuit that many of his novels were authentic cinematographic claims. A sure value with which to attract readers of all kinds in favor of the cause of fantasy.
3 Recommended Novels by Michael Crichton
Rescue in time
I have to admit that time travel has always been one of my weaknesses. When I was very young, I enjoyed The Time Machine by HG Wells, just as I loved the movie Back to the Future. All this temporal paradoxes was and still is fascinating today (yes, I see Time Ministry).
Summary: The multinational ITC develops, under top secret, a revolutionary and mysterious technology based on the latest advances in quantum physics. However, ITC's critical financial situation forces it to obtain immediate results to attract new investors.
The clearest option is to accelerate the Dordogne Project, for the public an archaeological project to unearth the ruins of a medieval monastery in France but, in reality, a risky experiment to test a technology that allows travel in time. But when it comes to teleporting people from one century to another, the slightest mistake or carelessness can bring unpredictable and terrifying consequences ...
Michael Crichton offers us a new adventure supernovela, with a solid scientific approach and a reflective background. Without a doubt, a milestone in the trajectory of its acclaimed author.
Next
What am I going to tell you if I even wrote a book about cloning ... (here my award-winning superobra and everything ...) Of course, Next is a much more sophisticated plot, with brutal ethical and evolutionary implications ...
Summary: A haunting thriller about the dark side of genetic engineering. The author of State of fear it plunges us into the darkest aspects of genetic research, pharmaceutical speculation, and the moral consequences of this new reality. Researcher Henry Kendall mixes human and chimpanzee DNA and produces an extraordinarily evolved hybrid that he will rescue from the lab and pass off as a human.
Gene trafficking, "designer" animals, fierce patent wars: a disturbing future that is already here. An exciting subject in which reality surpasses fiction. The consequences of indiscriminate genetic manipulation are unpredictable and raise a moral debate that will undoubtedly determine our immediate future.
Dial
Contact with the extraterrestrial, narrated by Crichton is truly magnetic. A book that you cannot detach from to see what will happen next.
Summary: At the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, west of Tonga, a spaceship has been discovered, immediately causing the looming US political and military powers to take over the situation and take over the area.
A small group of scientists specialized in different areas is required to initiate an exploration and reconnaissance mission sponsored and controlled by the US Navy. They will have to dive three hundred meters deep, establish themselves in an underwater base and initiate investigations.
When they enter the gigantic ship, how could it be otherwise, the surprises begin to unfold one after another. And the greatest of them all is the discovery of a perfect sphere made of a strange material and unknown provenance that undoubtedly contains multiple secrets.
Other recommended books by Michael Crichton
Eruption
To Caesar what is Caesar's. And to Michael Chrichton what is also his. Because no matter how much he is the same James Patterson Whoever finished the work, the birth was Chrichton's and his the paternity.
Although deep down we have to thank Patterson. Because only a few others and Patterson himself could culminate this story with the dignity and greatness it deserves. Not only because it is posthumous but because of the interesting nature of the approach.
Because the thing about eruptions seemed something forgotten in recent decades. But it is still scary to think that we are walking under rivers of incandescent lava. If it were a newscast thing, Matías Prats would say, inflection of voice and pause, that we are constantly "on fire." Recent cases around the world remind us of this. Hence this story touches our hearts with that hint of uncertainty...
