We are here to review the book Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. We are not here to review the movie of the same name by Steven Spielberg (at least, not yet). The book is a study in the power of science that the problems with chaos theory. The movie is an amazing display of state of the art computer generated special effects. Michael Crichton loves taking cutting edge science fact and mixing it with fiction and a lesson on how what we know is not as perfect and exact as most people think it is. So, let’s go visit some dinosaurs.

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The Andromeda Strain was Michael Crichton’s first blockbuster novel. It made his reputation and marked him as the master of scientific theory novels. The basic formula of Michael Crichton novels is to start with a scientific theory, mix it with additional made up scientific theories and throw them together into a novel that lets him explore the reality of the theories. The Andromeda Strain does a wonderful job of pushing a real-life scenario into the scientific theory mix.

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