Michael Crichton
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In this recently discovered Crichton novel, the year is 1876. Among the warring Indian tribes and lawless gold-rush towns of America's western territories, two paleontologists pillage the Wild West. They're hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveying, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled Yale student William Johnson. Determined...
44) 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.
45) Prey: (abridged)
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Xymos Technology laboratory is working on creating cell-sized artificial organisms that can group together to perform complex tasks. The task the microcreations choose is to break free of their human creators.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Three men are found dead in a Honolulu building. The only clue left behind is a tiny robot, nearly invisible to the human eye. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students are recruited and dispatched to a mysterious lab in Hawaii, where they are promised access to tools that will open a whole new scientific frontier. But once in the Oahu rain forest, the scientists are thrust into a hostile wilderness that reveals profound and surprising...
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...
Description
When renowned paleontologist Dr. Grant agrees to accompany a wealthy adventurer and his wife on an aerial tour of Isla Sorna, InGen's former breeding ground for prehistoric creatures, he has no idea that he was brought along for a totally different reason. When their plane crashes and they become stranded, they discover the island's native inhabitants are smarter, faster, fiercer and more brutal than imagined.
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?
51) 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.
52) Twister
Pub. Date
c1996
Formats
Description
Tornadoes swirling with cliffhanging excitement and awesome special effects and scientists pursuing the most destructive weatherfronts to sweep through mid-America's Tornado Alley.
53) 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.
54) 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.
56) Westworld
Pub. Date
2010
Description
A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.--imdb.com.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin -- exploring a world in which every human appetite, not matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged. Exploring what it means to be human through the eyes of the lifelike AI "hosts" in the park, the series investigates the boundaries of an exotic world set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past. Meticulously crafted and artfully designed. Westworld...
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.
60) 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.