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Michael Crichton Dead At 66

Posted by samzenpus on from the velociraptors-confirm-it dept.

Many readers have submitted stories about the death of Michael Crichton. The 66-year-old author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain died unexpectedly Tuesday "after a courageous and private battle against cancer," a press release said. In addition to writing, he also directed such sci-fi classics as Westworld and Runaway. Crichton was married five times and had one child.

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  1. Re:Sad. RIP by Lisandro · · Score: 5, Informative

    Stay the fuck away from the TV remake. Forgive me for beint this blunt, but it really is that bad.

    The 1971 is perhaps the most accurate book-to-movie conversion i've seen. I first saw it arround 5 years ago, and it found it gripping. There was little a remake could improve over it.

  2. For those that don't get the joke by PCM2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those that modded the parent "Troll": Michael Crichton's Web site seems to be down now, but he gave a speech called "Aliens Cause Global Warming" in which he claimed to debunk "consensus science." The gist was that political discussion of global warming too often invoked "scientific consensus," where he argued that science was not consensus-based and that such claims were therefore meaningless.

    Similarly, though we may not have consensus that Michael Crichton is dead, it makes absolutely no difference to him.

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