#micheal Crichton

[robodino93]

Happy Halloween (early as 💩, I know)! For Halloween, I wanted to do something nice. At first, this illustration was meant to be one of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, but I think it’s now an Allosaurus (it’s missing a third finger and the arms aren’t long enough, I think).

Underneath, I would like to write a mini story.

It was a dark and stormy night, and you were driving down a road in Costa Rica. You were here for a much needed vacation from the hell that was work. Seven to nine hours a day, five days a week, it was tiring and you have been exhausted for weeks at a time. But just a week ago, you got a vacation pass from your boss, and you gleefully accepted the pass and took a flight down to Costa Rica.

Unfortunately, a storm had arrived one day during your vacation, as you were staying at a beach a few miles from the town you were staying in, a town you don’t remember at the top of your head. But, the name is on the map you have on the dashboard of the rental Jeep. The speed limit is 50 mph on the signs you see every few minutes, but you’re going 60. You don’t mind it really, since you’re used to being above the speed limit back at home.

As you’re thinking about home, you notice a fork in the road and slow down to read the signs. One goes east, and the other goes south. You take the map off your dashboard and read its components. The map you used to get to the beach is an expansion of a larger map of Costa Rica. You notice to the left of Costa Rica in the middle of the ocean, is a map of five islands. The names of the islands include Isla Nubar and Isla Sorna, and those make you remember about some incidents that occurred in an island in the Central American area.

You figure that Isla Nublar and Sorna were the islands that the incidents took place at. But, putting the interesting fact aside, you look at the small map and you see the town you’re staying at, because you had circled it in red with a Sharpie before going to the beach. The town is on the road that goes east, so you put the map back and take the road east.

You continue down the road for several minutes, without anything changing really. The rain pattered against the windshield, and the whippers went back and forth, making a squeaking noise. The yellow lights of the Jeep illuminate about three or four yards of the asphalt road ahead, with its yellow stripes reflecting the light, making the path visible a further few yards than the range of the lights.

But, as you start to see the lights of the town, a sudden black shape crosses the road, startling you into an abrupt stop, launching your face into the steering wheel. You take a moment to readjust yourself, noticing your nose is bleeding. You reach for the napkins in the glovebox. That’s when you look outside the passenger window, and see something.

You quickly figure out it must’ve been what came in front of the Jeep. You first see the yellow eyes of the animal. Maybe it’s a jaguar or something like that. You get a little worried, but you figure that it might just go away. But it keeps staring at you. You completely forget about the napkins in the glovebox as you stare at the creature. The creature is starting to look more visible as your eyes adjust to the darkness. You start to realize that it’s bigger than you thought it was. It looks like it’s bigger than the Jeep, which makes you even more nervous. The lights from the Jeep start to bring the creature into view.

The animal is as big as you feared, and it’s a very dark green, but not dark enough to blend with the foliage of the jungle. It appears to actually be standing in its hind legs, with arms that seemed to be equipped with claws. It also has scaly skin, and there are large shapes going along its back all the way to its tail, a blackish color. But, as you keep looking at it, it almost looks like a dark purple. It also has a tan underside, marked by these splotches. They cover the creature’s arms, feet, and face. You can’t tell if the splotches are marks of dirt or mud, so you start to look closer. But as you start to focus more on the splotches, you realize that they’re red. A dark red. Almost like it’s blood. As you look at the spreading splotches, you start to wonder, are they part of the animal’s color pallet, or did it just finish a meal. And then, you realize that it looks like a dinosaur.

You quickly try to find your camera to take a picture, but when you return to the window, it’s gone. You look around in the Jeep at the road and the two sides of the jungle. You make some last looks around, and you figure it went away, like you thought it would at first. You put your camera back in your backpack, and take one of the napkins in the glovebox and wipe your nose. After you’re done, you finish the drive to the town.

Strangely though, it seems everybody is awake and wandering around town. Some are moving quite fast, for it being nighttime. There’s a woman on her porch crying and balling tears down here cheeks. The man next to the woman heads back into the house. You wonder what happened as you pull up to the hotel. You gather your stuff and start heading indoors, but then you notice the man that went inside is coming back out with sheets of paper. He hands them to other people, and they start rushing towards power poles, and started taping and nailing the papers to the poles. You decide to go look at the nearest paper and see what it says.

The sign reads:

Missing: Eduardo Chavez Age 5 Went missing during the night. Family heard loud bang and boy’s screaming as he was taken into the jungle. Immediate help wanted. Possibly injured. Large bird like footprints found near the house.

As you finish reading the text, you come to a realization that shocks you and fills you with fear.

The creature you saw in the road had eaten the child.

[life-of-a-rat]

I watched westworld yesterday. Very much so enjoyed it, the environment/aesthetic was amazing, lots of very empty kinda liminal shots, and alot of those scenes had no music, which worked really well! Also, did you know that this was apparently the first feature film to use computer generated imagery? Quite a novelty in ‘73!

however, this movie has added one more piece of evidence to my theory that Michael Crichton might not have known what an ending was.

[trnsocial]

84 From '84: Runaway

In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots… and his son becomes a target. Cast: Tom Selleck as Sergeant Jack R. Ramsay Cynthia Rhodes as Officer Karen Thompson Gene Simmons as Dr. Charles Luther Kirstie Alley as Jackie Rogers Stan Shaw as…

[shyloverrr]

Novel Velociraptors.

[bobauthorman]

Fun Fact

According to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1990 film DVD bonus features, Raphael has read the original Jurassic Park novel by Michael Crichton and claims it is superior to the movie.

[spockprimeftw]

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

If you hate author self inserts, stay away from the book of Jurassic Park.

Guess who was Michael Crichton's Gary Stu self insert character.

This mf.

The stigma of self-inserts is so harmful to the creative process. Relax. Admit it. Everything you make is derivative of yourself, always, no exceptions. You can turn the mirror into tinier and tinier shards or you can make it as big as you want to reflect as much as you want. At the end of the day it's always going to show you inside of it. Pretending otherwise is stupid.

[nerdby]

Just found one of my favorite movies on Tubi -- The Lost World: Jurassic Park. It's an underrated sequel to the original 1993 Jurassic Park movie that got me into horror movies. I used to be terrified of the dinosaurs in the JP movies😂

[ladysophiebeckett]

and that is how we end a movie.

[bluejohnhook56]

Anyone read Michael Crichton's "Prey"?

[tamara-kama]

Yul Brinner in the original Westworld (1973) by Micheal Crichton

[thenixkat]

also, I finished reading The Lost World and apparently, one of the reasons that the Jurassic Park dino things are like that is b/c they all have a prion disease from the predators being fed ground sheep. Then that just kinda spreads through their environment via scavenging and predation. The raptors especially all have the dino mad cow disease. Also, none of the feral dino things on site B, which probably would have happened at site A too, is that none of them are reaching full maturity. The dino mad cow causes fuckers to drop dead after a few years.

also apparently the other reason the raptors are like that is b/c they effectively grew up in dino prison hell with zero good adult raptor role models to teach them how to act right

also the prion disease deaths are actually what's supporting the absurd number of predators living on these small ass dino thing infested islands

[antlereed]

taking a break from my usual horror movies to instead rewatch jurassic park

[the-grim-reapers-intern]

Tma episode 2 Do not open

Finally finished this drawing! Since do not open is one of my favourite episodes I wanted to add a bunch of details like Joshua reading the lost world by Micheal Crichton and the picture of Amsterdam on his window. There’s a few things I could have improved but I like the colours so it’s fine. My headcanon for Joshua Gellespie is that he always makes a bunch of drinks at the same time and sometimes forgets about them. When he froze the key I knew he was iconic.

[paradoxx046]

Oooo I love sci fi!!! Have some more recs <3 (I'm just taking pictures of covers rn bc I'm supposed to be getting ready to drive back to college)

(Titles and authors also listed in alt text <3)

Also I'll be adding a few more books *and* summaries when I do get to college bc I have a small library started there ✨️

classic scifi novels by men r always like. page 1 here's a cool scifi idea i had. page 2 i hate women so much it's unreal

[apenitentialprayer]

The ultimate lesson is that science is not special — at least not anymore. Maybe back when Einstein talked to Niels Bohr, and there were only a few dozen important workers in every field. But there are now three million researchers in America.* It's no longer a calling, it's a career. Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. Its practitioners aren't saints, they're human beings, and they do what human beings do — lie, cheat, steal from one another, sue, hide data, fake data, overstate their own importance, and denigrate opposing views unfairly. That's human nature. It isn't going to change.

Micheal Crichton (Next, page 79). *This novel was written in 2006.

[cometkov]

help me decide what book to read for the spooky season ☆彡

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones - horror, being hunted by a vengeful creature

The Andromeda Strain by Micheal Crichton - sci-fi, fictional disease outbreak

What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher - sequel of What Moves the Dead, reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, gothic & supernatural