Jurassic Park
A billionaire’s dinosaur theme park turns deadly when cloned predators and human miscalculation collide.
First published 2012 · Jurassic Park
Science FictionThriller
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Story
A remote island park built on cloned dinosaur DNA is nearly ready to open, and a group of scientists, a lawyer, and investors are brought in to assess whether the project is viable. What begins as a guided tour becomes a test of whether humans can actually control a living system built on advanced genetic engineering, corporate ambition, and unstable assumptions.
As the visit unfolds, warning signs multiply: weather worsens, security falters, and the park’s carefully designed controls start slipping. The story follows multiple specialists as they move through the island, observe the creatures, and try to understand what has gone wrong before the situation becomes irreversible.
Once containment fails, the novel shifts into a survival crisis shaped by attacks, injuries, and escalating chaos. The characters are forced to navigate the island’s dangers while the larger questions behind the park’s creation—science, ethics, greed, and control—loom over everything that happens.
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Details
- Authors
- Michael Crichton
- First published
- 2012
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror, Fantasy, Classics, Adventure, Dinosaurs
- Subjects
- dichogamy · corporate espionage · science fiction · cautionary tale · genetic engineering · amusement parks · dinosaurs · chaos theory · Procompsognathus · paleontologists · paleobotanists · theme parks · cloning · ancient DNA · lysine · auxotrophy · chaos theorists · complex systems · velociraptors · backdoor · Tyrannosaurus · biotechnologists · napalm · Clones and cloning · Fiction · Large type books · Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure · Fiction, technological · Fiction, thrillers, general · Jurassic park (imaginary place), fiction · Malcolm, ian (fictitious character), fiction · Dinosaurs, fiction · Fiction, suspense · Zhang pian xiao shuo · Ke xue huan xiang xiao shuo · Fiction, thrillers, technological · Dinosaurios · Novela · Parques de diversiones · Spanish language materials · Animal genetic engineering · Suspense fiction · Thrillers (Fiction) · American fiction · Translations into Chinese · Chang pian xiao shuo · Juvenile fiction · Amusement parks, fiction · Brothers and sisters, fiction · Scientists, fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307763051
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