Michael Crichton

Back to the big screen: Michael Crichton, who died last November, is in line for another film adaptation Steven Spielberg bought the rights to Pirate Latitudes. Crichton's 'Pirate Latitudes' has the loot: Gore, sex, action died at 66 of...

In this article: The Great Train Robbery, Steven Spielberg, Cancer, Harvard, and HarperCollins

This week, Michael Crichton's last book, ever, sails the seas of pirate adventure. In story collections: Alice Munro's strong and subtly mysterious women; Ha Jin's immigrants caught between two worlds. And a space-program history finds...

In this article: Ha Jin, Voyager, Gary Flandro, United States, Aggravation, Apollo, and National Book Award

...Press Writer Chad Roedemeier, Associated Press Writer - 36 mins ago "Pirate Latitudes" (HarperCollins, 320 pages. $27.99), by Michael Crichton: It's pointless to complain about the cardboard characters, dreadful action-movie dialogue and...

In this article: Dog, All rights reserved, Time travel, Gout, Timeline, ER, Jurassic Park, and Disclosure

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In this article: Joseph Papp, Kenneth Turan, Renee Montagne, William Shakespeare, A Chorus Line, Public Radio, Martin Sheen, and Hair

...with the Edinburgh Evening News site. To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton is published by Harper Collins, priced AGBP18.99. Michael Crichton's posthumously-published...

In this article: Harper Collins and Caribbean

...the second, due out in fall 2010, will be a technological thriller based on a narrative Crichton had begun in notes and files. Michael Crichton's novels, including State of Fear, Prey, The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, and Timeline,...

In this article: HarperCollins, The Andromeda Strain, State of Fear, Prey, Timeline, Next, Amazon, Jurassic Park, and Caribbean

The week of November 23 begins with the release of the posthumous Michael Crichton title Pirate Latitudes, followed by the start of the FIL book fair in Guadalajara. Coming soon: follow-up releases to Three Cups of Tea and Eat, Pray, Love.

In this article: Guadalajara, Booker Prize, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sebastian Barry, Julia Roberts, Indonesia, and UK

...necessarily all he appeared to be. In fact, he was a bit of a crackpot fantasist who'd read too many John Grisham and Michael Crichton novels and fancied himself as a secret agent, even giving himself the codename 0014 because he thought...

In this article: Steven Soderbergh, Matt Damon, Mark Whitacre, FBI, Che, Lysine, and James Bond

...of the importance of picking an ironclad password for your computer. This 17th-century seafaring adventure was discovered after Michael Crichton's death, buried like Blackbeard's treasure in one of the author's hard drives. Nobody at his...

In this article: Harvard, HarperCollins, Massachusetts Bay Colony, The Andromeda Strain, and Jurassic Park

...world's most prestigious literary prize and largest book fair, plus a posthumous release by international bestseller Michael Crichton. The Department of Culture and Information of Sharjah has organized the Sharjah World Book...

In this article: Man Asian Literary Prize, Cervantes Prize, Wolf Totem, Montreal, Middle East, and Madrid