Автор - Michael Crichton

Prey

Rising Sun

Schwarze Nebel

Das Buch Im Jahre 922 macht sich Ibn Fadian, Vertreter des Herrschers von Bagdad, auf eine große Reise: Er fährt über das Kaspische Meer und das Tal der Wolga hinauf zum König von Saqaliba. Bevor er dort ankommt, trifft er auf Buliwyf, einen mächtigen Anführer der Wikinger, den seine in Bedrängnis geratenen Verwandten in den Norden rufen. Buliwyf muß nach Skandinavien reisen, um seine Landsleute und seine Familie vor Ungeheuern zu retten, die aus dem Nebel kommen und alles Leben bedrohen. Ein frühes Werk von dem Erfolgsautor von »Dino-Park« und »Nippon Connection«. Der Autor Michael Crichton wurde 1942 in Chicago geboren. Sein Studium absolvierte er am Harvard College und an der Harvard Medical School. Nach seiner Promotion arbeitete er als Dozent am Salk Institute in La Jolla, Kalifornien und seit 1988 als Gastdozent am Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Außerdem führte er Regie bei mehreren Filmen, darunter der Adaption seines eigenen Romans »Der große Eisenbahnraub«. Sein Roman »Nippon Connection« erschien 1992 im Droemer Knaur Verlag und eroberte sofort die deutschen Bestsellerlisten.

Sphere

State Of Fear

The Andromeda Strain

The Great Train Robbery

The Lost World

The Terminal Man

Timeline

Timeline.Eine Reise in die Mitte der Zeit

When you step into a time machine, fax yourself through a "quantum foam wormhole" and step out in feudal France circa 1357, be very, very afraid. If you aren't strapped back in precisely 37 hours after your visit begins, you'll miss the quantum bus back to 1999 and be stranded in a civil war, caught between crafty abbots, mad lords and peasant bandits all eager to cut your throat. You'll also have to dodge catapults that hurl sizzling pitch over castle battlements. On the social front, you should avoid provoking "the butcher of Crecy" or Sir Oliver may lop your head off with a swoosh of his broadsword or cage and immerse you in "Milady's Bath", a brackish dungeon pit into which live rats are tossed now and then for prisoners to eat. This is the plight of the heroes of Timeline, Michael Crichton's thriller. They're historians in 1999 employed by a tech billionaire-genius with more than a few of Bill Gates' most unlovable quirks. Like the entrepreneur in Crichton's Jurassic Park, Doniger plans a theme park featuring artefacts from a lost world revived via cutting-edge science. When the project's chief historian sends a distress call to 1999 from 1357, the boss man doesn't tell the younger historians the risks they'll face trying to save him. At first, the interplay between eras is clever but Timeline swiftly becomes a swashbuckling old-fashioned adventure, with just a dash of science and time paradox in the mix. Most of the cool facts are about the Middle Ages and Crichton marvellously brings the past to life without ever letting the pulse-pounding action slow down. At one point, a time-tripper tries to enter the Chapel of Green Death. Unfortunately, its custodian, a crazed giant with terrible teeth and a bad case of lice, soon has her head on a block. "She saw a shadow move across the grass as he raised his axe into the air." Try not to turn the page! Through the narrative can be glimpsed the glowing bones of the movie that may be made from Timeline and the high tech computer game that should hit the market in 2000. Expect many clashing swords and chase scenes through secret castle passages. But the book stands alone, tall and scary as a knight in armour shining with blood.