My deepest condolences for the death of one of my favorite authors in English, Michael Crichton, who passed away on November 4th, 2008.
I'm a fan of all his works, period. I feel the pulse racing when I read his books, yet filled with a cool and collected thought that can only be the result of proper scientific facts combined with an open mind. He helped me traverse the world of science without fear and with curiosity and made me appreciate contemporary scientific fiction as a thing in itself. I still remember the afternoon when P introduced me to his novels and me forgetting to do anything else by drowning myself into his "Andromeda Strain". And there were days when my friends and I used to discuss his novels. The Andromeda Strain, Timeline, Sphere, Airframe, State of Fear, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, etc. would forever remain my favorite books of teenage, the time and author never coming back now. Another one of my favorite authors/actors gone, damn!
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:-( . . . I felt like crying when I heard he died !! he was one of the best authors ever born and my favorite too. No one could ever write science fiction like him . He made science take wings and fly :( . I am already missing the books he could have written . . .
My sentiments exactly! The world has lost a good set of books that were yet to come from him
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