Jurassic Park (novel)

Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton. It was made into a movie in 1993 directed by Steven Spielberg.

As a story, Jurassic Park is a "going back in time" story, without actually going back in time. It's impossible, but like H.G. Wells's 
many books, or Conan Doyle's  The Lost World, it is futurist but imaginary.

 Plot 
In Costa Rica, strange reports of children and infants being killed by vicious animals suddenly occur through this peaceful place. One of the species behind the attacks is a compy, an extinct dinosaur species. A paleontologist and his colleague are contacted to confirm the murderous animal's identity, but become aruptly whisked away by John Hammond and are unable to deal with the killings. Hammond reveals that he has created a park known as Jurassic Park, a place full of living dinosaurs of all types. The recent attacks by the creatures have made Hammond's investors skittish. 

Later, throughout the course of the story, Dennis Nedry steals some embryos from the park, and goes off into a jungle. Nedry hears a strange thing, and encounters a Dilophosaurus, a species of ceratosaur. It spits at Nedry and kills the latter. At the end of the book, the dinosaurs escape the island.

 Characters 

 Movie 
 Dennis Nedry
 Dr. Henry Wu
 Dr. Alan Grant
 Dr. Ellie Sattler
 John Hammond
 Ray Arnold
 Robert Muldoon
 Donald Gennaro

 Characters that were not added in the movie 

 The infant
 Elena Morales the midwife
 The Infant's mother
 Ed Regis

 Related pages 
 Jurassic Park (movie)

 Other websites 

 Jurassicpark.com 
 Jurassic Main Frame News

Category:20th-century American novels
Category:Jurassic Park
Category:American science fiction books
Category:1990 books
Category:Dinosaurs in fiction
Category:Horror novels
Category:Movies about dinosaurs