num_pages: 400
description: The dinosaur is back on earth—alive, now, in Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park.An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price.Until something goes wrong...In 'Jurassic Park', Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller. The story, told with an almost documentary verisimilitude, is an account of the attempt, through a hair-raising twenty-four hours on a remote jungle island, to avert a global emergency—a crisis triggered by today's headlong rush (virtually unchecked by any government or scientific watchdogs) to commercialize genetic engineering.
  Michael Crichton
 (1942–2008) makes a brilliant and captivating use of the unique amalgam of suspense and informed science (this time paleontology, biotechnology, and chaos theory) that he originated in 'The Andromeda Strain' (1969). Of all his superb scientific thrillers—all of them best-sellers—'Jurassic Park' is in every way the strongest. It is certain to be his most widely read, talked about, and unreservedly enjoyed novel to date.
language: English
title: Jurassic Park
titlecomplete: Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
characters: Ian Malcolm, John Hammond, Tim Murphy, Ellie Sattler, Alan Grant
genres: Thriller, Fiction, Dinosaurs, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adult, Horror, Fantasy, Adventure
ratings_count: 932062
places: Costa Rica, Isla Nublar
series: Jurassic Park
awards: awardedAt: 1451635200000
name: Audie Award
category: Science Fiction, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards
category: Secondary, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: South Carolina Book Award
category: Young Adult Book, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Nevada Young Readers' Award
category: Young Adult Category , awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Evergreen Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Soaring Eagle Book Award, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Iowa Teen Award
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf