Michael Crichton, equiescat in pace ...

[rich]

he also said some asinine things about climate change
wasn't he like a bush advisor of some sort?

rich

On 11/5/08, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> For some weird reason I was in a science fiction class at Hollywood
> High in 1972. The class I was taking over at Mclane High in Fresno
> [1971-1972] was your standard issue english class---read 10 sci-fi
> books, write book reports , get graded. But the Hollywood High class
> was more like a workshop for future authors, standards were higher
> and well known authors showed up at the class including the late Mr.
> Crichton.
>
> I asked him two questions. First, "how much money did you make on
> 'The Andromeda Strain' ?", probably the one book that turned Sci-Fi into
> a major Pop phenomenon. The teacher was shocked by my question,
> and told me it was out of bounds, which was news to me. I also asked
> him if he did his own research on "Dealing, or the Berkeley-to-Boston
> 40 brick lost bag blues", a book serialized in Playboy. I guess he was
> between a rock and a hard place, and mumbled how his brother [who
> collaborated with him on that book] did the research, though his laugh
> kinda betrayed his evasion.
>
> Not much of a fan of his market-driven writing, more of a Hesse/
> Brautigan
> hippie wanna-be at the time. The movie of "The Andromeda Strain" that
> came out soon after was well above average for Sci-Fi at the time.
>
>
>
> On Nov 5, 2008, at 10:04 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:
>
>> Best-selling author Michael Crichton dies
>> November 5, 2008 at 11:55 AM
>>
>> Chicago-born Michael Crichton, author of best sellers including
>> "Jurassic Park" and "The Andromeda Strain," has died in Los Angeles,
>> his Web site reported today. He was 66.
>>
>> More details to come.
>>
>> http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/11/best-selling-author-michael-crichton-dies.html
>
>