Science meets action, along with a prescient warning about the hubris of capitalism’s role in technological advancement, in the 1990 smash hit novel Jurassic Park.
The book by Michael Crichton, who also penned other modern classics like The Andromeda Strain and Congo, and created the hit television series ER, tells the story of a bioengineering billionaire who recreated long-extinct dinosaurs using fossilized DNA trapped in amber. But as the protagonists, a paleontologist and paleobotanist, quickly find out when touring a theme park that will showcase living dinosaurs for tourists’ amusement, the profits aren’t worth the danger associated with the larger-than-life deadly creatures.
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Themes of arrogance, unexpected consequences, and heroism pepper the cautionary tale, which became a number one New York Times bestseller after its November 20, 1990, release. It was subsequently turned into a blockbuster hit movie, which became a hugely successful film franchise.
When asked to name the best action-adventure novel, Goodreads users gave Jurassic Park the number one spot. It also took fourth place on the bibliophile social media site’s list of mystery sci-fi books alongside genre-defining books like Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game and new Young Adult classic, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
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“This is one of Crichton's best novels,” gushed one review on Goodreads, proclaiming that Jurassic Park “could be called part of the foundation of the Sci-Fi thriller, aka techno thriller, genre with mainstream media adaptions and many great, new authors following in his footsteps.”
“I loved this book. The story is scary, action-packed, and kept me reading. Throughout the beginning and middle, there were a lot of similarities to the movie, but the entire last portion of the book was completely different, in a good way,” said another reviewer, pointing out that while the novel and its cinematic counterpart are similar, if you’ve only experienced one, it’s worth diving into the other.
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