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Crichton eaters of the dead6/29/2023 ![]() What the heck is this? “The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in AD 922.” Ooooookkkkk…. And it’s Michael Crichton, right? He is one of our best known creature sci-fi writers. It sure sounds like a book about zombies. I was shocked to find it wasn’t sci-fi.When I pulled Eaters of the Dead from my shelf, two things happened: It is almost tempting to Google InGen and expect to find real stocktickers or company data. ![]() With his science fiction, he often creates fictitious organizations or groundbreaking legal statutes–anything that will build up his coming story and provide a plausible backbone. The reader can hardly separate his “facts” from reality and is immediately drawn into whatever world Crichton has masterfully created. But the way he folds them into his introduction, they seem like an Author’s Note at the start of any other book, laying the real, historical foundation before diving into fiction. ![]() Right from the beginning of a Michael Crichton novel, he begins selling untruths. ![]()
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