Michael Crichton, R.I.P.

One of the news items lost in the deluge of election coverage was the death of Michael Crichton from cancer at age 66. After the film Jurassic Park came out in 1993 I read the book and also read two of his others, The Lost World and Congo. I tried to get through The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery, and Timeline, but found them boring and suffocated by jargon. Still, he was clearly brilliant, multi-talented, and prolific, and I hope tributes to his career break through the political coverage in the coming days.