Sphere

I would put it on the middle as well.

I think I read Congo like right out of high school because I had read the first Crichton book I'd ever read was Sphere.

And I read that in like my junior year of high school.

And then, yeah, Congo while I was still living in Bend for sure.

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If you ever saw the movie or read the book Sphere by Michael Crichton, the premise is that we find a spacecraft at the bottom of the ocean that's built 300 years from now, but it's an American craft.

So I think that there's probably numerous reasons why we see so many shapes and sizes, but triangles are on the rise.

And triangles are... associated with a lot of abductions.

Just to preface, if he's given away the farm about what's really going on, it's amazing he's still alive because the people that wouldn't want that to get out would make sure he doesn't say anything before they dispose of him, for lack of a better word.

So I think he's very measured in what he says.

So like I mentioned earlier before about the book Sphere by Michael Crichton, when he says off-world craft, how do we know it's not human off-world craft being manufactured off-world? Right.

Technically, are we talking about aliens or are we talking about Americans being on the moon on a secret base or something? And if that's the case, non-human biology could simply mean an astronaut's broccoli and cheese lunch in a pouch.

Let's look at three heavy hitters that Hasenberg ranked here.

At number six, we have Michael Crichton's 1987 novel, Sphere.

Crichton is the undisputed king of the scientific thriller, and honestly, Sphere might be his most claustrophobic work.

The setup is pure Crichton.

Psychologist Norman Johnson is summoned by the Navy to join a specialist team.

Exactly.

Yeah.

And if we look at the quote from Crichton's Sphere, "This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings."

No, there's...

And I think when thinking about Jurassic Park, the book, in relation to the movie, I think what's really striking about it and why, going back to our Sphere episode...

Which is so funny because I feel like I've had a few people be like, I like the Sphere movie.

But maybe it's just because I really love the Sphere book.

But then to me, does this make sense that the Jurassic Park novel is basically almost like a simplification of the book? Or sorry, the Jurassic Park movie is like the simplification of the novel where it's like instead of the power going on and off, it's like the power just goes out.

and like that's it like it's almost just like yeah it's almost like if jurassic park the novel was a document or like a documentary of what happened then jurassic park is like the biography like the the the biopic the fictionalization of a real story

I was like, honestly, Jurassic Park sounds like Crichton's like science is a...

Crichton is a jilted lover of science, you know? Because in this book, I don't know, would you...