Crichton

Crichton is a Scottish surname, occasionally used as a given name.

Michael Crichton (1942–2008) was an American novelist known for technothrillers like *Jurassic Park* and *The Andromeda Strain*.

An admirable Crichton is a person skilled in all areas—from James Crichton, a 16th-century Scottish polymath celebrated for his accomplishments.

novels

Jurassic Park

Dinosaur amusement park catastrophe

  • WestworldSci-fi frontier resort
  • SphereCrichton's ocean-depths tale
  • CongoMajor Central African waterway

The Andromeda Strain · The Lost World · Rising Sun · Binary

career

author

Creator of written works

producer · Harvard Medical School · physician · techno-thriller · bestseller · Hollywood · ER · adaptations · Spielberg · blockbuster

characters

velociraptor

Small feathered Cretaceous predator

themes

dinosaurs

Extinct prehistoric reptiles

chaos theory · nanotechnology · corporate greed · bioethics · time travel · artificial intelligence · de-extinction · pandemics · genetic engineering · media manipulation

surname

Scottish

Of that northern kingdom

genealogy · lineage · family name · Gaelic · Highland · patronymic

Categories
Opposites
literary style and genre approach

CrichtonToni Morrison

"Song of Solomon"

Virginia Woolf · James Joyce · Marcel Proust · William Faulkner · Cormac McCarthy

stance toward science and technology

CrichtonIsaac Asimov

Elon Musk · Arthur C. Clarke · techno-utopian · transhumanist · techno-utopianism

climate change position

CrichtonAl Gore

Former vice president, environmentalist

Greta Thunberg · environmentalist · IPCC

Phrases
Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G