Tall, handsome and successful, he had his own dystopian side. Crichton's book was hailed by President George Bush, and he came under fire for accepting the American Petroleum Geologists journalism award. In his novel, a group of scientists engineer natural disasters which are then blamed on global warming. Ironically, he achieved a great deal of notoriety with his 2004 novel, State Of Fear, which argued that attribution of global warming to human activity was speculation, not fact. His utilitarian writing style, primarily plot-driven, made his books naturals for screen adaptation, but many authors' writing makes the transition without the authors themselves succeeding in screenwriting, much less directing, feature films. "He was the greatest at blending science with big technical concepts," said the Jurassic Park director, Steven Spielberg, a long-time friend.Ĭrichton was unusual too in the way in which he moved from writing novels to directing films at a very early stage in his career. This was all the more surprising because his speciality, the "techno-thriller" strand of science fiction, was remarkably dystopian, generally dealing with the unexpected consequences of technology or misunderstood science gone out of control, and could usually be read as warnings about putting too much faith in progress.
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