They land and Hoffman meets Captain Harold Barnes ( Peter Coyote: JAGGED EDGE), the guy who's apparently in charge of whatever is going on. Their destination is a spot on the ocean where what looks like a large part of the U.S. The pilot doesn't know anything about a plane crash.

He's under the impression that he's on his way to the site of a plane crash to council the survivors.

Norman Goodman ( Dustin Hoffman: MARATHON MAN, SLEEPERS, OUTBREAK), a psychologist who specializes in post traumatic stress disorder. The pilot ( Huey Lewis: SHADOW OF A DOUBT) tells his single passenger, who slept through most of what was apparently a long flight, that they're almost to their destination. The story opens with a helicopter flying over what we find out is the Pacific Ocean. SPHERE, a science fiction movie based on Michael Crichton's science fiction novel of the same name, was directed by Barry Levinson ( SLEEPERS, DISCLOSURE) and written for the screen by Kurt Wimmer ( EQUILIBRIUM), Stephen Hauser and Paul Attanasio ( THE SUM OF ALL FEARS).

What's the matter, Michael? Are you afraid that if your books were in the sci-fi section, people wouldn't take you as seriously? That your book sales wouldn't be as astronomical? Or that maybe if your fans had to go to the sci-fi section and find your books, they might discover other, better authors who aren't afraid to label their novels for what they are? Is that it? And yet, if you go to a bookstore will you find any of these books in the Science Fiction ghetto? No, they're all in the regular Fiction section, pretending to be something they're not. Plain and simple, no quibbling, that's what they are. ( FeoNote: Ahem! And Thrillers and sometimes Horror, that's why many of them are reviewed here!). THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN, about an alien virus, TIMELINE, about time travelers, JURASSIC PARK, about genetic engineering used to resurrect dinosaurs, PREY, about nanotechnology) are science fiction. No, my resentment comes from the fact that most of his novels ( e.g. Not because he's rich and famous - I'm a total capitalist and I applaud his success. 'This Ray Bradbury-esque is one of the most memorable and one of the more original stories I've read in a long time.'įull disclosure: I resent Michael Crichton. ''Willow Blue' will burrow under your skin and stay there long after you've put the book down.'

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