Sphere
by Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park author
Michael Crichton is possibly the best science teacher for the masses since H.G.
Wells, and Sphere, his thriller about a mysterious spherical spaceship at the
bottom of the Pacific Ocean, is classic Crichton. A group of not-very-complex
characters (portrayed in the film by Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L.
Jackson, and Queen Latifah) assemble to solve a cleverly designed roller
coaster of a mystery while attempting (with mixed success) to avoid sudden
death and expounding (much more successfully) on the latest, coolest scientific
ideas, including the existence of black holes. Somehow, Crichton manages to
convey the complicated stuff in utterly simplistic prose, making him, as his
old pal Steven Spielberg puts it, "the high priest of high concept."
Yet there is more to Crichton than science and big-ticket show biz. He is also,
as any reader of his startling memoir Travels knows, a bit of a mystic--he is
entirely open to notions spouted by spoon-bending psychics that most science
writers would scorn. Sphere is not only a gratifying sci-fi suspense tale; it
also reflects Crichton's keen interest in the unexplained powers of the human
mind. When something passes through a black hole in Crichton's fiction, a
lesson is learned. The book also contains another profound lesson: when you're
staring down a giant squid with an eyeball the size of a dinner plate, don't
blink first.
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