(John) Michael Crichton (1942-2008)

Novels

Micro, 2011

Private Latitudes, 2009

Next, 2006

State of Fear, 2004

published posthumously
completed by Richard Preston

Prometheus Award 2005
(Libertarian Futurist Society)

Prey, 2002

Timeline, 1998

Airframe, 1996

Disclosure, 1993

Phantastic Preis Award 2003
(German)

2003 movie starring
Paul Walker & Gerard Butler
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1994 movie starring
Michael Douglas & Demi Moore
Buy Disclosure on

Rising Sun, 1991

Sphere, 1987

Congo, 1980

Eaters of the Dead, 1976

1193 movie starring
Sean Connery & Wesley Snipes
Buy Rising Son on

1998 movie starring
Dustin Hoffman & Sharon Stone & Samuel L. Jackson
Buy Sphere on DVD

1995 movie starring
Dylan Walsh (Nip/Tuck) and Tim Curry
Buy Congo on DVD

1999 movie starring
Antonio Banderas
Buy The 13^th Warrior on

Jurassic Park, 1980

The Lost World, 1994

Michael Crichton was only peripherally involved in Jurassic Park III

1991 Locus Award Winner for Best Novel

Buy Jurassic Park on
DVD

Please note, the movie, The Lost World, has the same NAME as MC's sequel to JP, but the book & the movie have little-to-nothing else in common

Buy The Lost World: Jurassic Park II on
DVD

Buy Jurassic Park III on
DVD

Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay, 1994

1995 Academy Award for Technical Achievement

Buy Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy Gift Set on

According to Hollywood sources, there's a fourth JP movie in pre-production. We'll just have to see, huh?

The Great Train Robbery, 1973

The Terminal Man, 1972

The Andromeda Strain, 1969

1980 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture

Won 1971 Seiun Award (Japanese equivalent to HUGO)

1979 movie starring
Sean Connery & Donald Sutherland
Buy The Great Train Robbery on DVD

1974 movie starring
George Segal (Just Shoot Me)
Buy The Terminal Man on DVD

1971 movie
Buy The Andromeda Strain on DVD

2008 miniseries starring
Benjamin Bratt & Rick Schroder & Eric McCormack & Daniel Dae Kim & André Braugher
Buy The Andromeda Strain on DVD

Short fiction & poetry

"Johnny at 8:30" [poem]

[untitled short sotry]

"Life Goes to a Party"

"The Most Important Part of the Lab"

First Words
Earliest Writing From Favorite Contemporary

"Blood Doesn't Come Out"

McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales

"The Most Powerful Tailor in the World"

Playboy, Sept 1971

"Mousetrap: A Tale of Computer Crime"

Life, January 1984

Television & Film

Twister Screenplay1996
(with Anne-Marie Martin--his then-wife)

Buy ER: all 15 seasons on DVD

1989 movie Directed by Crichton
starring
Burt Reynolds & Ted McGinley & Ned Beatty
Buy Physical Evidence on DVD

Runaway
1984 movie starring Tom Selleck & Cynthia Rhodes (Dirty Dancin')
Buy it on DVD

1996 movie starring
Helen Hunt & Bill Paxton & Cary Elwes & Jami Gertz & Lois Smith & Alan Ruck & Joey Slotnick
Buy Twister on DVD

won Peabody Award for ER (created and wrote first 3 episodes)

Writer's Guild Award of Amarica Award for TV script

1996 Emmy Award

1981 movie starring Albert Finney & James Coburn Buy Looker on	1978 Crichton-directed movie based on novel by Robin Cook starring Genevieve Bujold & Michael Douglas & Rip Torn Buy Coma on	1973 movie based on Screenplay titled Extreme Close-Up written by Crichton Buy Sex Through a Window on
WestWorld
Westworld, 1974 [novelization?] 1973 movie starring Yul Brynner & James Brolin Buy WestWorld on	1976 non-Crichton sequel starring Peter Fonda & Blythe Danner (Meet the Parents) Buy FutureWorld on	Beyond WestWorld 1980 TV series (5 episodes) based on the two previous movies

Nebula Nominee best dramatic presentation 1973

Non-Fiction

Five Patients, 1970 (nf)

Jasper Johns, 1977 (nf)

Electronic Life: How to Think about Computers, 1983 (nf)

Travels, 1988 (nf)

1970 Association of American Medical Writers Award

The Global Warming Code

Nanotech Heads to Hollywood

Nanotechnology Preys Upon the Public

Michael Crichton on Global Warming

Writing as Jeffrey Hudson		With brother Douglas Crichton As Michael Douglas
A Case of Need, 1968 Was made into 1972 movie starring James Coburn Buy THE CAREY TREATMENT on	"How Does That Make You Feel" [short story] Playboy, November 1968	Dealing, or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues, 1971 Was made into 1972 movie starring: John Lithgow & Barbara Hershey & Charles Durning Buy Dealing on
1968 Edgar Award for Best Novel