![]() The bulk of the remaining narrative consists of dinos-ferocious T. Upon arrival, the visitors tour the park meanwhile, an industrial spy steals some dino embryos by shutting down the island's power-and its security grid, allowing the beasts to run loose. ![]() Among them are hero Alan Grant, noble paleontologist Hammond, venal and obsessed amoral dino-designer Henry Wu Hammond's two innocent grandchildren and mathematician Ian Malcolm, who in long diatribes serves as Crichton's mouthpiece to lament the folly of science. Into the park, for a safety check before its opening, comes the novel's band of characters-who, though well drawn, double as symbolic types in this unsubtle morality play. ![]() Designed as the world's ultimate theme park, the ecosystem boasts climate and flora of the Jurassic Age and-most spectacularly-15 varieties of dinosaurs, created by elaborate genetic engineering that Crichton explains in fascinating detail, rich with dino-lore and complete with graphics. Frankenstein is aging billionaire John Hammond, whose monster is a manmade ecosystem based on a Costa Rican island. has bounced back from the science-fantasy silliness of Sphere (1987) for another taut reworking of the Frankenstein theme, as in The Andromeda Strain and The Terminal Man. From the introduction alone-a classically Crichton-clear discussion of the implications of biotechnological research-it's evident that the Harvard M.D. ![]() Genetically engineered dinosaurs run amok in Crichton's new, vastly entertaining science thriller. ![]()
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