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Format: Quality Paperback, Abridged-CD
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: Jan 1990
Genre: Fiction - Science Fiction - General
Retail Price: $19.99
Pages: 432
Now available in trade paperback, New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton's classic science fiction thriller.
In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old. But even more fantastic—and frightening—is what waits inside…
The first 100 pages were brutal. The psychologist who chose the civilian crew could not have picked a bigger bunch of head cases if he had tried. I know Crichton did this to enable his plot but this guy was apparently totally professionally incompetent. And he emerges as the hero, yet. Add to this paragraph after paragraph of scientific lectures and its pretty bad. They all should have died.