Posted on 11/05/2008 12:00:19 PM PST by Oyarsa
CBS News is reporting that author Michael Crichton has died at age 66. According to the report, Mr. Crichton, whose books include The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Prey, and others, fought "a courageous and private battle against cancer, according to a statement released by his family." (Gawker brought this story to our attention.)
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R.I.P Mike my friend. I’m wondering if maybe the election results did the final blow?
Apart from being an excellent and creative writer, he was a voice for reason and sanity against globull warming, he’ll be sadly missed. Prayers for family and friends.
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Just WOW! Thanks for the post.
Oh no! What a great loss! I guess now he can serve a truly higher purpose. RIP and thank you, sir!
I really liked his 2004 novel, “State of Fear.”
He was one of our favorite Authors. I read “Andromeda Strain” while flying to Viet-Nam.
You’ve enjoyed Jurassic Park & his other films.
His “most important novel” is “State of Fear”. It is long, enjoyable, action-filed
& debunks the pseudo-science of Al Gore. Sue is re-reading our copy, I’ll be re-reading it once she is done.
Oh man, he was one of my favorites! I didn’t realize he was 66. I saw him on a video from the Charlie Rose show talking about Anthropogenic Global Warming (he didn’t agree with it), and he looked like he was in his 50’s.
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