[Moosehead]

Incredible speech...not that familiar with Chrichton but will certainly check his books out.

[Nataku X]

To be frank I was surprised to see him come out against environmentalism--he always appeared to be a liberal to me. One of his earlier books basically was a push to legalize abortion, and his sequel to Jurassic Park had large chapters bashing 6-day creationism. I'm not a literal creationist but if I had to write books bashing political issues I'd write 100 books bashing liberal issues before getting around to creationism.

And his Jurassic Park book, while a good read, seemed to be full of stereotypical liberal themes--big evil arrogant corporation buys island, messes with nature, pays for it all in the end... so I was *really* surprised to read this article.

[Renegade]

Watch the movies" Andromeda Strain" and "The Jurassic Park Trilogy" . The writer is the same person .

[spyone]

I would recommend his book "Timeline" which anyone who enjoys Dan Brown's books would like. He also directed the movie "The Great Train Robbery" a few decades ago.