CREATOR1 WORK ON THE SHELF
Michael Crichton
BIO
Bio
American author and filmmaker (1942–2008), trained as a physician, whose techno-thrillers, including The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park, took real science one step past the headlines.
WORKS
On the shelf.
ON THE SHOW
On the show.
- Ep 1 — Why Does SciFi Matter? (19:16–19:50): Jurassic Park was one of Rob's introductions to sci-fi. He calls Crichton's books "very, very near science fiction," so close to reality that a lot of people don't even recognize them as sci-fi.