Michael Crichton was a master of sci-fi and techno ... the globe to thwart these catastrophic events. Storywise, State of Fear is bog-standard but pleasing stuff, serving up a suitably propulsive ...
In 1968, a young Michael Crichton, still a student at Harvard Medical School, sent a manuscript to Robert Gottlieb, who had just taken over as editor-in-chief at Knopf. The document had a ...