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'Jurassic Park' author, 'ER' creator Crichton dies

Michael Crichton, who helped create the TV show "ER" and wrote the best-sellers "Jurassic Park," "The Andromeda Strain," "Sphere" and "Rising Sun," has died in Los Angeles, his public relations firm said in a news release.

People.com: Best-Selling Writer Michael Crichton Dies at 66

The author of Jurassic Park and the creator of TV's ER privately battled cancer, his family says

Time.com: Michael Crichton: A Master Storyteller of Technology's Promise and Peril

It was the Jurassic Park novelist's professional achievements that made him such an imposing figure

Time.com: Family: Michael Crichton Dies of Cancer

The family of Michael Crichton, the million-selling author of such historic and prehistoric science fantasies as "Jurassic Park," "Timeline" and "The Andromeda Strain," says the author has died in Los Angeles

Molly Ivins: Unbounded incompetence

The administration's competence problem is already at the yadda, yadda, yadda stage. They were supposed to protect us from terrorist attack, they said Iraq would be a cakewalk, that we only needed 50,000 troops. They failed to plan for the occupation or Hurricane Katrina or the prescription drug plan. Yadda.

Commentary: Global warming sizzles in pop culture

Amid the devastation of World War I, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau famously proclaimed, "War is far too important to be left to the generals."

Fortune: WHEN TECHIES WAX PHILOSOPHICAL, TAKE COVER! AT A RECENT PC INDUSTRY CONFERENCE, THE TALK WAS OF MEANING AND METAPHOR.

When a journalist takes off for a computer industry conference, she expects to trade business cards and rack up contacts. She expects to hear gossip about deals, about why Microsoft isn't a presen...

Fortune: DON'T READ THIS ONE ON AN AIRPLANE MICHAEL CRICHTON'S NEW THRILLER ABOUT A MIDAIR ACCIDENT TRIES TO BLOW THE

When mega-author Michael Crichton writes, many trees fall. Alfred A. Knopf, the publisher of his latest novel, Airframe, has ordered up a massive two-million print run for starters. There's a $10 m...

Fortune: JURASSIC INC.

If you trekked with 86 million other Americans to Jurassic Park, the top-grossing movie of 1993, and now go to see Disclosure, the newest Michael Crichton novel-cum-film to hit the multiplex, you m...

Fortune: Rights for copywriters, more management murders, the promise Bill will keep, and other matters. RETURN OF THE EVIL BUSINESSMAN

Everybody and his uncle, not to mention the present writer's grandson, have been chattering frenziedly about Jurassic Park, the $100 million blockbuster now being rolled out by Universal Pictures. ...

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