Michael Crichton

A billionaire's dinosaur theme park — built using ancient DNA extracted from prehistoric mosquitoes — collapses into chaos when the animals escape containment, in a gripping techno-thriller that is also a serious argument about the limits of human control over nature.

Six years after the Jurassic Park disaster, a separate island — Site B — is discovered still teeming with dinosaurs that have been surviving without human interference. Ian Malcolm leads a small expedition to study them, unaware that they're not the only ones there.

A satellite crashes in rural Arizona, and everyone in the nearest town is dead within minutes. A team of scientists races to a secret underground lab to identify and contain an extraterrestrial microorganism before it escapes — and before the government's nuclear failsafe triggers and makes everything catastrophically worse.

A Norton Aircraft wide-body transatlantic flight arrives in Los Angeles with three dead and fifty-six injured after a mysterious in-flight incident nobody can explain. Quality Assurance VP Casey Singleton has 72 hours to reconstruct what happened before a damaging television news investigation airs — and before the company loses a billion-dollar sale to China.

A tech consortium races into the Congo rainforest to find a lost city — and the deposits of industrial diamonds it holds. They are joined by a primatologist and her signing gorilla named Amy, who may hold the key to what killed the previous expedition. Crichton combines African adventure, corporate espionage, and animal intelligence research.

In a Nevada desert facility, a cloud of self-replicating nanobots has escaped containment, evolved predatory behavior, and begun hunting the humans outside. Jack Forman — a software engineer and stay-at-home dad — must enter the facility to stop the experiment before the swarm becomes something that cannot be stopped at all.

A cloud of self-replicating nanobots escapes a remote Nevada research facility and begins evolving with terrifying speed, forcing a stay-at-home software engineer to confront a threat that is simultaneously invisible, intelligent, and multiplying. Michael Crichton's nanotechnology thriller melds evolutionary biology with edge-of-your-seat suspense.

A team of scientists is assembled under the Pacific Ocean to investigate a mysterious spacecraft found on the ocean floor — a spacecraft that pre-dates any known human technology. Inside they find a perfect gold sphere. And then the sphere begins to respond to them, and the real terror begins.

Jamaica, 1665: privateer Captain Edward Hunter assembles a crew to raid the heavily fortified Spanish galleon El Trinidad, moored at Matanceros under the guns of a famously cruel Spanish commander. Published posthumously from a completed manuscript found on Crichton's computer after his death.

Six years after the catastrophe at Jurassic Park, mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm joins a covert expedition to Isla Sorna — Site B — where InGen's dinosaurs have been breeding and evolving without human interference. What they find there is far more dangerous than anyone anticipated.

A group of history students and their professor are sent back to fourteenth-century France using quantum technology — arriving in the middle of the Hundred Years' War. They have six hours to find their missing colleague and return to the present. Crichton applies his techno-thriller formula to medieval history.

Michael Crichton's satirical thriller weaves together multiple storylines involving biotech corporations, genetic patents, talking transgenic animals, and the researchers, lawyers, and patients caught in the commercialization of the human genome. It is a darkly comedic indictment of an industry racing ahead of its own ethics.