It pains me to say this, and I’ve written about it in my Timeline review, but Michael Crichton is a dickhead. Why else would he include a footnote in this book, when he’s making a reasonable point about nuclear energy, to smugly add that “trees don’t vote.” You already made the point dude, now by adding in some smugness you have alienated a portion of your audience. Way to make friends and influence people. Digital Life is Crichton’s 1980s guide to IBM compatible computers and similar. […]

Michael Crichton used to be my favorite author. Then I read State of Fear. That’s not really an exaggeration, State of Fear is so bad it changed my whole opinion on the author. It’s a breathless screed against climate science wrapped in the barest wrapper of a story. It’s one of those “why even did you write this” things that doesn’t feel at all out of place in 2023, the age of Matt Walsh’s What is a Woman and Elon Musk demanding a renowned vaccine […]

There is a place way down in Los Angeles they call the Nakamota Tower! And it been the ruin of one woman, and now I can’t think of a rhyme.   Anyway, Michael Crichton is a moralizing asshole a lot of the time. It would be one thing if the novels would just speak for themselves. They’re incredibly one note already, but he often ends them with a chiding epilogue that tsks tsks us into taking a problem he sees seriously. In this novel it’s […]