Doctor, author, scientific educator, filmmaker, and producer Michael Crichton passed away at the age of 66 from a private battle with cancer.
I remember reading my first Michael Crichton book, The Terminal Man at the age of 12, then I read his classic sci-fi plague novel The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery, and Eaters of the Dead. He made complex scientific theories understandable, and wrote in a fast paced, economical style, that set them apart from tedious lectures on the dangers of this and that and made them into exciting adventure thrillers.
He will be missed.
I remember reading my first Michael Crichton book, The Terminal Man at the age of 12, then I read his classic sci-fi plague novel The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery, and Eaters of the Dead. He made complex scientific theories understandable, and wrote in a fast paced, economical style, that set them apart from tedious lectures on the dangers of this and that and made them into exciting adventure thrillers.
He will be missed.
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