I know it was a few months ago but I didn't see any other threads about it and I just found one of his books while tidying up so...
I rarely feel any dismay when someone famous dies, but in this case I feel the world has lost a great creative mind. I grew up reading his special brand of 'hollywood' science fiction.
Given the private way in which Crichton lived his life, his battle with throat cancer was not made public until his death. A smoker, he died unexpectedly of throat cancer on November 4, 2008.
Michael’s talent outscaled even his own dinosaurs of ‘Jurassic Park.’ He was the greatest at blending science with big theatrical concepts, which is what gave credibility to dinosaurs again walking the earth. In the early days, Michael had just sold ‘The Andromeda Strain’ to Robert Wise at Universal and I had recently signed on as a contract TV director there. My first assignment was to show Michael Crichton around the Universal lot. We became friends and professionally ‘Jurassic Park,’ ‘ER,’ and ‘Twister’ followed. Michael was a gentle soul who reserved his flamboyant side for his novels. There is no one in the wings that will ever take his place.
—Steven Spielberg on Michael Crichton's death
Fiction Novels
Year Title Notes
1966 Odds On as John Lange
1967 Scratch One as John Lange
1968 Easy Go as John Lange
A Case of Need as Jeffery Hudson (re-released as Crichton in 1993)
1969 Zero Cool as John Lange
The Andromeda Strain
The Venom Business as John Lange
1970 Drug of Choice as John Lange
Dealing as Michael Douglas (with brother Douglas Crichton)
Grave Descend as John Lange
1972 Binary as John Lange
The Terminal Man
1975 The Great Train Robbery
1976 Eaters of the Dead
1980 Congo
1987 Sphere
1990 Jurassic Park
1992 Rising Sun
1994 Disclosure
1995 The Lost World
1996 Airframe
1999 Timeline
2002 Prey
2004 State of Fear
2006 Next
2009 Untitled Novel to be published posthumously
Novels adapted into films
Year Title Filmmaker/Director
1971 The Andromeda Strain Robert Wise
1972 Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues Paul Williams
1972 The Carey Treatment (A Case of Need) Blake Edwards
1974 The Terminal Man Mike Hodges
1993 Jurassic Park Steven Spielberg
1993 Rising Sun Philip Kaufman
1994 Disclosure Barry Levinson
1995 Congo Frank Marshall
1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park Steven Spielberg
1998 Sphere Barry Levinson
1999 The 13th Warrior (Eaters of the Dead) John McTiernan
2003 Timeline Richard Donner
2008 The Andromeda Strain (TV miniseries) Mikael Salomon
As a director or screenwriter
Year Title Notes
1972 Pursuit A TV movie
1973 Westworld Directed
1978 Coma A Michael Crichton Film/Directed/Screenplay
1979 The First Great Train Robbery Directed/ wrote screenplay
1981 Looker
1984 Runaway
1989 Physical Evidence
1993 Jurassic Park co-wrote screenplay
1994 ER Creator/Writer/Executive Producer
1996 Twister co-wrote screenplay
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