Jurassic Park - Softcover

Michael Crichton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099282917 ISBN 13: 9780099282914

Publisher: Arrow, 1993

Synopsis

On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park.

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now one of mankind's most thrilling fantasies has come true and the first dinosaurs that the Earth has seen in the time of man emerge.

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...

With this masterful cross of science fiction and action-adventure, Michael Crichton created one of the biggest bestsellers of all time, turned by Steven Spielberg into the highest grossing blockbuster ever in 1993.

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Review:

Unless your species evolved sometime after 1993, when Jurassic Park hit theatres, you're no doubt familiar with this dinosaur-bites-man disaster tale set on an island theme park gone terribly wrong. But if Speilberg's amped-up CGI creation left you longing for more scientific background and ... well, character development, check out the original Michael Crichton novel. Although not his best book (get a hold of sci-fi classic The Andromeda Strain for that), Jurassic Park fills out the film version's kinetic storyline with additional scenes, dialogue and explanations while still maintaining Crichton's trademark thrills-'n'-chills pacing. As ever, the book really is better than the movie. --Paul Hughes, Amazon.com

Review:

"Crichton's most compulsive novel to date" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Breathtaking adventure... a book that is as hard to put down as it is to forget" (Time Out)

"Wonderful ... powerful" (Washington Post)

"Full of suspense" (New York Times)

About this edition

• Publisher: Arrow
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0099282917
• ISBN 13: 9780099282914
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416