Michael Crichton
Author
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country, it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop, two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils while surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. But as always there is a dark side to the fantasy and after a catastrophe destroys the park's defence systems, the scientists and tourists are left fighting for survival.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 567 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
MIT scientist and federal agent John Kenner embarks on a critical search to find and stop the head of a mainstream environmentalist group whose rage over losing an important source of funding leads him to devise a series of weather disasters and instill fear in the public over global warming.
5) Timeline
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the threshold of the twenty-first century, information moves instantly between two points without wires or networks. Any moment of the past can be actualised and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century France. The historians are employed by a tech billionaire-genius. He plans a theme park featuring artifacts from a lost world revived via cutting-edge science. The project's chief historian sends a distress call to...
Author
Series
Jurassic Park volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
On an island off Costa Rica there exists a hush-hush colony of giant animals which attracts the attention of two expeditions. The first one, including children, is led by a paleontologist, the other is made up of evil scientists who want to do experiments. The animals rout both without much concern for their motives.
Author
Series
Andromeda novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name-and spawned a new genre, the techno thriller-the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant.
The Evolution is Coming.
In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle-designated The Andromeda Strain-killed every resident of the town of Piedmont,...
8) Congo
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st Ballantine Books ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 316 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three adventurers trek into the Congo in search of the diamonds of the Lost City of Zinj.
9) Scratch one
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2013, ♭1967.
Edition
First Hard Case Crime edition.
Physical Desc
268 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mistaken for a secret agent, a hapless lawyer scrambles to stay alive An arms dealer in Copenhagen dies after sipping a poisoned martini. An American diplomat in Lisbon is shot in the back of the head. A Frenchman survives being pushed in front of a train, only to be murdered in his hospital bed. Though seemingly unconnected, these events are part of an international conspiracy that could spell death for Roger Carr. Carr is a lawyer, but he has no...
10) Airframe
Author
Publisher
Alfred Knopf
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st Trade ed.
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Following a series of plane crashes and passenger deaths a frenzied high pressure investigation is ordered with some surprising results.
12) The terminal man
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1972
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
xi, 247 p. illus. 23 cm.
Language
English
13) Grave descend
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Hard Case Crime edition.
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Leagues below the sparkling blue water of the Caribbean Sea lies the mysterious wreckage of the Grave Descend. Protected by a wall of coral reef and blood-thirsty sharks, the corpse of the sunken yacht has been deemed unrecoverable by every diver in the world. Until James McGregor is offered a shot at it. For McGregor, a thirty-nine-year-old diver with a long history of unsavory salvage jobs, it is his last chance at a big payday. But the more he...
14) Jurassic Park
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Collector's ed., Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy entrepreneur invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to visit his secret island theme park featuring living dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA.
Series
Westworld volume Season 1
Publisher
HBO
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (619 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin -- exploring a world in which every human appetite, not matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged. Exploring what it means to be human through the eyes of the lifelike AI "hosts" in the park, the series investigates the boundaries of an exotic world set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past. Meticulously crafted and artfully designed. Westworld...