One of the best Sci-fi novelist Michael Crichton, who made dinosaurs, DNA and emergency-room dramas populist Hollywood fodder, has died yesterday November 6, 2008 with cancer according to the news. He was 66 then.
Crichton was trained in anthropology and medicine and became the best-selling author of The Andromeda Strain, a 1969 novel chronicling scientists’ attempt to beat a killer, extraterrestrial virus. Last 1990 also the thriller Jurassic Park brought cloning of dino-DNA to the masses; a dinosaur. He has a long-running hit TV series ER made medicine compelling to non-doctors. More recently, He stoked derision when he questioned the idea that climate change is a crisis and took a sceptic’s position in his 2004 novel, State of Fear, then went on to meet with President Bush on the topic, the Associated Press notes.
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