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  • This book has me thinking

  • I am used to extensive references in my academic work and none in my thriller fiction, but Crichton does an incredible job and now I need to go to the primary sources.

    

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  • People on both sides of the "Climate Change" issue should read this novel. And follow up on Michael Crichton's sources.

    

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  • good book for the environmental skeptic. After reading this book i suggest surfing around the net as some "facts" in the book have been debunked. Very interesting read.

    

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  • I thought I'd take a dip into the world of Michael Crichton after a an absence of several years, but I think I dipped into the wrong book. Crichton has definitely done his homework, but his usual integration of science and technology was pretty weak and sometimes I couldn't tell if I was reading a ... Continue

    I thought I'd take a dip into the world of Michael Crichton after a an absence of several years, but I think I dipped into the wrong book. Crichton has definitely done his homework, but his usual integration of science and technology was pretty weak and sometimes I couldn't tell if I was reading a novel or an academic paper. Way too much time on the global warming info - way too little time on a good story.

    

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  • This one is better than "Prey," but I just can't bring myself to finish it. I think I lost interest around the time Crichton said that a 150sqmi glacier had roughly the same area as Rhode Island. Rhode Island is over 1,200sqmi.

    

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In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor.

In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications.

In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters off New Guinea.

And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means.

Thus begins Michael Crichton's exciting and provocative technothriller, State of Fear. Only Michael Crichton's unique ability to blend science fact and pulse-pounding fiction could bring such disparate elements to a heart-stopping conclusion.

This is Michael Crichton's most wide-ranging thriller. State of Fear takes the reader from the glaciers of Iceland to the volcanoes of Antarctica, from the Arizona desert to the deadly jungles of the Solomon Islands, from the streets of Paris to the beaches of Los Angeles. The novel races forward, taking the reader on a rollercoaster thrill ride, all the while keeping the brain in high gear. Gripping and thought-provoking, State of Fear is Michael Crichton at his very best.

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