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HarperCollins is excited to announce the global publication of a new Michael Crichton novel, MICRO, to be released November 22, 2011. A high concept thriller in the vein of Jurassic Park, MICRO is co-written by Richard Preston, and follows a group of graduate students who are lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company specializing in micro-robotics. Conflict with the head of the company leaves the group fighting for their lives when they find themselves physically transformed and cast out into the rain forest, with only their scientific expertise and wits to protect them. Sophisticated entertainment that draws on cutting edge research, MICRO explores the outer edges of new science and technology in vintage Crichton fashion.
Crichton was well into the writing of the book when he died in November 2008, leaving behind the first third of the manuscript, an outline, and a well-defined cast of characters. He also left a bibliography of close to 100 books and DVDs, as well as detailed notes and research.
In November 2009, the Crichton estate, working in collaboration with his publisher, selected Richard Preston as the ideal person to complete the novel. The bestselling writer of both scientific works of narrative nonfiction and suspense novels, Preston is perhaps best known for the Dark Biology books about viruses: The Hot Zone, The Cobra Event, and The Demon in the Freezer. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. The recipient of numerous awards, including the American Institute of Physics Award and the National Magazine Award, he is the only person who isn t a medical doctor ever to receive the Centers for Disease Control s Champion of Prevention Award for public health.
Jonathan Burnham, Senior Vice President and Publisher of Harper, said, Harper is honored and thrilled to be able to announce a new Crichton novel for the fall. Starting with a brilliant and wonderfully Crichton-esque concept and a substantial amount of early material, Richard Preston has taken Crichton's ideas and characters and woven them into a terrific entertainment. The result is a unique collaboration that should delight Crichton's many fans.
"When I first read Michael Crichton's unfinished manuscript, I could practically feel his excitement filling the pages, Richard Preston said. Michael was writing at the top of his game, with a grand sense of adventure, into an eerie world that seems almost beyond imagining. For me, it was an irresistible challenge to finish the novel, and I was driven by a desire to honor the work and imagination of one of our time's most visionary and creative authors."
Lynn Nesbit, Crichton s agent, added, Michael was exhilarated by his concept for this novel. He felt he was breaking new ground by introducing his readers to a fascinating, almost unimaginable landscape with real scientific underpinnings. Once again he was ahead of the curve.
The subject of the tension between modern man and the natural world was one to which Crichton repeatedly returned throughout his career. In an unfinished introduction to MICRO, he wrote, "Perhaps the single most important lesson to be learned by direct experience is that the natural world, with all its elements and interconnections, represents a complex system and therefore we cannot understand it and we cannot predict its behavior...Interacting with the natural world, we are denied certainty. And always will be."
Amazon Exclusive: “Micro is Anything But Small” by James Rollins
Crichton was well into the writing of the book when he died in November 2008, leaving behind the first third of the manuscript, an outline, and a well-defined cast of characters. He also left a bibliography of close to 100 books and DVDs, as well as detailed notes and research.
In November 2009, the Crichton estate, working in collaboration with his publisher, selected Richard Preston as the ideal person to complete the novel. The bestselling writer of both scientific works of narrative nonfiction and suspense novels, Preston is perhaps best known for the Dark Biology books about viruses: The Hot Zone, The Cobra Event, and The Demon in the Freezer. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. The recipient of numerous awards, including the American Institute of Physics Award and the National Magazine Award, he is the only person who isn t a medical doctor ever to receive the Centers for Disease Control s Champion of Prevention Award for public health.
Jonathan Burnham, Senior Vice President and Publisher of Harper, said, Harper is honored and thrilled to be able to announce a new Crichton novel for the fall. Starting with a brilliant and wonderfully Crichton-esque concept and a substantial amount of early material, Richard Preston has taken Crichton's ideas and characters and woven them into a terrific entertainment. The result is a unique collaboration that should delight Crichton's many fans.
"When I first read Michael Crichton's unfinished manuscript, I could practically feel his excitement filling the pages, Richard Preston said. Michael was writing at the top of his game, with a grand sense of adventure, into an eerie world that seems almost beyond imagining. For me, it was an irresistible challenge to finish the novel, and I was driven by a desire to honor the work and imagination of one of our time's most visionary and creative authors."
Lynn Nesbit, Crichton s agent, added, Michael was exhilarated by his concept for this novel. He felt he was breaking new ground by introducing his readers to a fascinating, almost unimaginable landscape with real scientific underpinnings. Once again he was ahead of the curve.
The subject of the tension between modern man and the natural world was one to which Crichton repeatedly returned throughout his career. In an unfinished introduction to MICRO, he wrote, "Perhaps the single most important lesson to be learned by direct experience is that the natural world, with all its elements and interconnections, represents a complex system and therefore we cannot understand it and we cannot predict its behavior...Interacting with the natural world, we are denied certainty. And always will be."
Amazon Exclusive: “Micro is Anything But Small” by James Rollins
An avid spelunker and scuba enthusiast, James Rollins holds a doctorate in veterinary medicine and is the author of the New York Times best-selling Sigma Force series, the most recent of which is The Devil Colony.
First I have to admit, Michael Crichton is why I write. In fact, if not for his books, I’d probably still be a practicing veterinarian in Northern California, dealing with flea allergies, ear infections, and all manner of medical maladies. It was Crichton’s stories of wild adventures, his explorations into the strange frontiers of science, and his truly ripped-from-the-headlines plotting that inspired me to set down my own scalpel and stethoscope and pick up pen and paper.
But his influence went beyond mere heady inspiration. His books also served as a tutorial into the practicalities of storytelling. When I tackled my first novel (a deep-earth adventure titled Subterranean), I continually kept a copy of Jurassic Park on the shelf above my desk. That book became my roadmap on how to build a story’s structure: who dies first and when, at what point do we see the first dinosaur, how do you fold science into a novel without stagnating the flow? That old copy of Jurassic Park remains dog-eared and heavily highlighted, and it still holds a cherished place on my bookshelf.
So I dove into Crichton’s latest novel, Micro, with some trepidation, fearing how a collaborative effort might tarnish his great body of work. Now, to be fair, I’d also read Richard Preston’s nonfiction masterpiece of scientific horror and intrigue, The Hot Zone. That book was as brilliant as it was terrifying. But still I wondered, could Preston take Crichton’s story and truly do it justice?
In a word: YES.
In two words, HELL YES.
Micro is pure Crichton. Dare I say, vintage Crichton, harkening back to the scientific intrigue of Andromeda Strain, to the exploration of the natural world covered in Congo, and to the adventure and thrills of The Lost World. As only Crichton can, he has taken a scientific concept as wild as the one he tackled in Timeline and exceeded in making it chillingly real. It took a clever quirk of genetics and cloning to give rise to the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. Likewise, a twist of science in Micro calls forth a new horror out of the natural world—but not just one line of threat. In this book, the entire biosphere becomes a vast and deadly playground. Its depiction is both darkly beautiful and stunningly dreadful. It is a terrain as foreign as any hostile planet, yet as close as our own backyard. To tell more would ruin a great adventure that will have you looking out your window with new eyes.
Similarly, this lethal and toxic terrain must be traversed by a band of gutsy heroes. But in typical Crichton style, these are not elite commandos or a highly trained black ops team. They’re simply a group of graduate students—each uniquely talented and flawed—gathered from various scientific disciplines: entomology, toxicology, botany, biochemistry. They must learn to combine resources and ingenuities to survive and ultimately thwart a danger threatening to break free into the world at large, all the while pursued by a sociopath as cunning as he is sadistic.
In the end, Micro has everything you’d expect in a Crichton novel—and so much more. But the greatest achievement here is a simple and profound one: with this novel, the legacy of a true master continues to shine forth in all its multifaceted glory. And someone somewhere will read this novel, turn the last page, and in a great aura of awe and inspiration, come to a realization: I want to try to write stories like that.
And they will.
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Michael Crichton was born in 1942 and died in November 2008. His bestselling novels include State of Fear, Prey, The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park and Timeline. He was also the creator of ER.
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Crichton und Preston legen einen spannenden Thriller vor, dem man nicht anmerkt, dass Preston sich in dem Korsett eines von Crichton begonnenen Romans bewegen, aber dieses Korsett eben auch ausfüllen musste. Das Buch liest sich wie aus einem Guss, ein Bruch in der Story war für mich nicht erkennbar.
Die Story allerdings ist für Crichton-Leser nicht ganz neu, wer Timeline gelesen hat, wird Parallelen erkennen: Eine neue Technologie ermöglicht den Zugang zu einer völlig anderen "Welt" (Timeline: Zeit), eine Gruppe junger Forscher ist plötzlich darin gefangen und muss sich einer feindlichen Umwelt erwehren, was durch intervenierende Konzerninteressen zusätzlich erschwert wird. Für diese Parallelen ziehe ich einen Punkt ab.
Bei Micro spielen die Naturwissenschaften eine zentrale Rolle, man hat es mit diversen "-ologien" zu tun. Für jedes Getier gibt es eigene Gattungsbezeichnungen, die ausführlich und lehrreich erläutert werden, die aber auch spannend in die Story eingebaut sind. Ähnlich wie in Timeline überlebt längst nicht jeder der Protagonisten die Geschichte und das Ableben ist gelegentlich durchaus unappetitlich, auch wenn es das gerade eben nicht ist.
Trotz der erwähnten Parallelen fühlte ich mich gut unterhalten und habe einige Bio-Kenntnisse aufgefrischt. Das Englisch von Crichton/Preston ist nicht besonders prätentiös, so dass sich das Buch gut lesen lässt.
Die Story allerdings ist für Crichton-Leser nicht ganz neu, wer Timeline gelesen hat, wird Parallelen erkennen: Eine neue Technologie ermöglicht den Zugang zu einer völlig anderen "Welt" (Timeline: Zeit), eine Gruppe junger Forscher ist plötzlich darin gefangen und muss sich einer feindlichen Umwelt erwehren, was durch intervenierende Konzerninteressen zusätzlich erschwert wird. Für diese Parallelen ziehe ich einen Punkt ab.
Bei Micro spielen die Naturwissenschaften eine zentrale Rolle, man hat es mit diversen "-ologien" zu tun. Für jedes Getier gibt es eigene Gattungsbezeichnungen, die ausführlich und lehrreich erläutert werden, die aber auch spannend in die Story eingebaut sind. Ähnlich wie in Timeline überlebt längst nicht jeder der Protagonisten die Geschichte und das Ableben ist gelegentlich durchaus unappetitlich, auch wenn es das gerade eben nicht ist.
Trotz der erwähnten Parallelen fühlte ich mich gut unterhalten und habe einige Bio-Kenntnisse aufgefrischt. Das Englisch von Crichton/Preston ist nicht besonders prätentiös, so dass sich das Buch gut lesen lässt.
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I was very happy when I saw that Richard Preston wrote Michaels novel to finish, sadly post mortem.
And I think he did a swell job!
Since "Jurassic Park", there wasn`t a Crichton this adventurous, this swashbuckling.
The fact that it was written by two authors, is clearly noticable if you know Circhtons bibliography.
People die all of a sudden and in general there are quite a few unpredictable turns in the plot.
Not that Michael Crichton wasn`t capable of constructing the unpredictable, he just did it in another way.
The combination of the two different styles is very well accomplished and deliveres a fun thrillride of a book.
Another aspect which makes this book unique is that it dares to be naiv in it`s storyline, in being adventuresome and entertaining
and also contain Crichtons vintage way of combining highly complex technical issues with amazingly suspenseful thriller writing.
Even though it can probably be counted as one of Crichtons novels, which are not really suitable for a motion picture adaption
and work better on the page than on screen (like "Congo"), it is nevertheless a great novel with a lot of suspense and, as all his works, very instructive.
As Richard Preston totaly correct stated in this book: "Don`t forget Michael Crichton"!!!
And I think he did a swell job!
Since "Jurassic Park", there wasn`t a Crichton this adventurous, this swashbuckling.
The fact that it was written by two authors, is clearly noticable if you know Circhtons bibliography.
People die all of a sudden and in general there are quite a few unpredictable turns in the plot.
Not that Michael Crichton wasn`t capable of constructing the unpredictable, he just did it in another way.
The combination of the two different styles is very well accomplished and deliveres a fun thrillride of a book.
Another aspect which makes this book unique is that it dares to be naiv in it`s storyline, in being adventuresome and entertaining
and also contain Crichtons vintage way of combining highly complex technical issues with amazingly suspenseful thriller writing.
Even though it can probably be counted as one of Crichtons novels, which are not really suitable for a motion picture adaption
and work better on the page than on screen (like "Congo"), it is nevertheless a great novel with a lot of suspense and, as all his works, very instructive.
As Richard Preston totaly correct stated in this book: "Don`t forget Michael Crichton"!!!
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A secret laboratory is invaded and suddenly, the spy receives cuts out of the blue. He flees and back at his clients one hurt man is transformed into three dead ones. In a closed room, with a knife sharper than a scapel.
Seven graduate-students come into a new laboratory on Hawaii and suddenly see themselves confronted with a terrible crime and an unbelievable invention - and soon afterwards spend a lot of energy and time fighting for their lives in the most dangerous environment imaginable.
Interesting concept but the unbelievable invention has been far to unbelievable for me and then the well-educated people in this book behaved far to ignorant and the "bad person" couldn't really convince me motive-wise. So in real two-and-a-half stars.
Seven graduate-students come into a new laboratory on Hawaii and suddenly see themselves confronted with a terrible crime and an unbelievable invention - and soon afterwards spend a lot of energy and time fighting for their lives in the most dangerous environment imaginable.
Interesting concept but the unbelievable invention has been far to unbelievable for me and then the well-educated people in this book behaved far to ignorant and the "bad person" couldn't really convince me motive-wise. So in real two-and-a-half stars.
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