Michael Crichton
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate Americas western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous...
23) Jurassic Park
Pub. Date
1993.
Description
This epic film is sheer movie-making magic that was 65 million years in the making. Jurassic Park takes you to an amazing theme park on a remote island where dinosaurs once again roam the earth and five people must battle to survive among the prehistoric predators.
25) Westworld
Pub. Date
2010
Description
A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.--imdb.com.
26) The 13th Warrior
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
After being warned by a fortune-teller that their fight against legendary creatures is doomed to failure unless they have a 13th warrior, a travelling ambassador (Banderas) is given no choice but to join a group of fierce fighters.
27) Disclosure
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
When an executive in a large company resists the advances of his new boss who is also a former love, she charges him with sexual harassment. Suddenly his marriage and his career are at risk, and his struggle to extricate himself leads to the exposure of an executive conspiracy.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A scheme to open a theme park featuring real dinosaurs cloned from DNA turns into a catastrophe; two teams head for Site B, an island where the dinosaurs have been left alone for four years; renowned paleontologist Dr. Grant is tricked into flying over InGen's former breeding ground for prehistoric dinosaurs and must guide several people through the island.
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Special features include the making of Jurassic Park, The lost world, and Jurassic Park III. Highlighted by fascinating, never-seen-before footage from all three Jurassic Park films, it offers an exclusive look at deleted scenes, additional footage and other materials not shown on any theater screen.
30) Sphere
Description
"In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel rests on the ocean floor. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend to the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a massive spaceship, undamaged from it's fall from the sky-and at least three hundred years old"--IMDb....
32) Coma
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A young doctor at a Boston hospital becomes suspicious when healthy young people undergoing routine operations are mysteriously slipping into irreversible comas.
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room. These medical professionals remain determined to save lives in a place where nothing is taken for granted and nothing is certain, nothing except that another desperate person will be rushed through the emergency room doors in the next moment in need of their help.
34) Congo
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
An expedition to return a gorilla to Africa and find the Lost City of Zinj and its diamond mines encounters a variety of dangers.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Book summary: In A. D. 922 a refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Bagdad, encounters a party of viking warriors on their journey to the barbaric North. He is appalled by Viking customs. But only in the depths of the Norhtland does he learn the horrifying truth: He has been enlisted to combat a terror that comes under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh....
Movie summary: After being warned by...
36) Jurassic Park
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
A wealthy man has created an island amusement park filled with dinosaurs cloned from fossilized DNA. When he invites experts to endorse it, nature takes over.
37) Rising sun
Description
The special liaison officer is called in to investigate the murder of a call-girl in the boardroom of a Japanese corporation. Accompanied by a detective with unusual knowledge of the Japanese culture, the two men must unravel the mystery behind the murder by entering an underground "shadow world" of futuristic technology, ancient ways and confusing loyalties."--Container.
38) Runaway
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
When two electronic engineers meet violent deaths, Jack Ramsey, a sergeant in the Runaway Squad, is called to investigate. He discovers a link between the murders and the development of a terrifying new weapon created by an evil mastermind
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
The reign begins...again. Return to the park with Owen, Claire, T. rex, and Blue--along with new dinosaurs more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before! But as the volcanic island erupts, putting the prehistoric creatures and humans in danger, will anyone or anything survive?
40) Westworld
Pub. Date
1972 reprinting 2017
Formats
Description
Two businessmen are enjoying a vacation at Wild West Fantasyland when a programming error causes the life-like androids to turn deadly.
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