A super team of science hotshots that makes Sheldon and Leonard look like middle schoolers takes it down to the line to pull us all from the brink. Seems an alien organism is making folks die – immediately. That’s an actual line from the book and describes one of the hero scientists’ attempts to come to grips with what was going on. True, some of the overly technical sections dragged and I recalled moments from HS when I daydreamed the lecture away but Crichton never let his lesson stray too far from the subject at hand – scaring the Heeby Jeebies out of us.
Like a Jonathon Edwards sermon, his straight man delivery creates a technical tension that informs as it terrorizes. Crichton put his best bedside manner forward and patiently explained his biological horror story in a way that – made it scarier. But whereas Weir stepped it down for the rest of us with some laugh out loud humor, the good Dr. Similar to Andy Weir’s brilliant 2011 mega success The Martian, this is hard science fiction told by an actual scientist. Nine years before Stephen King’s heavy, genre defining smackdown novel The Stand, intelligent tall guy Michael Crichton quietly blew people away with his own hard science Big Bang Theory epidemic story.
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