Critics have said he was clumsy with narrative and lazy with dialogue but no one can deny the power of Michael Crichton's ideas. From The Andromeda Strain to Jurassic Park Crichton's work has astounded and amazed, selling record numbers of copies and spawning one blockbuster movie after another. It seams nothing was out of reach for this creative spirit as he even touched gold on television with the current longest running nighttime drama in ER.
Sadly - like his award winning TV show (now in it's final season), all good things must come to an end. With America gripped by its most powerful election, Michael Crichton's death was a footnote on November 4th, 2008. He was 66 when a private battle of cancer took his life.
As one of the most successful science fiction writers of his time, Michael Crichton sold more than 150 million copies of his books. His page-turning stories attracted a broad spectrum or readers and was a major contributor in making science fiction a mainstream genre of entertainment. His stories often centered around technology catapulting man's greed and power into a high-stakes adventure with the fate of mankind in the balance.
I know I enjoyed reading his books, watching the movie adaptations, and being inspired by his ideas.
Peace be with you, Dr. Crichton.
3 comments:
How sad...I am so sorry to hear that.
Thanks for posting this. He had a great way of taking an abstract idea and making it real. And sometimes he did that by adding dinosaurs, which was awesome.
I was shocked. Who knew he even had cancer? Somebody ought to damn do something about that stuff!
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