As the android creations of the Delos theme park begin to operate on their own recognizance, they attack and threaten the lives of the guests who have come there merely to play and live out their childhood fantasies in the make-believe Old West. In Westworld (1973),Ĭrichton depicts the ability of technology to blur the line between reality and fantasy, and how that can affect people's lives. The Andromeda Strain is a technological thriller about a seemingly unstoppable plague brought to earth from outer space it became a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and a 1971 motion picture, directed by Robert Wise and starring Arthur Hill. In 1969, Crichton published The Andromeda Strain, a novel that, Crichton acknowledges, was influenced by Len Deighton's The Ipcress File (1962) and H. A Case of Need received favorable reviews and the 1968 Edgar Allan Poe Award of Mystery Writers of America.
Writing under the pseudonym John Lange, Crichton published a mystery novel entitled Odds On (1966), followed by A Case of Need (1968), written under the pseudonym Jeffrey Hudson. Eventually, he also directed his screenplay of his novel Westworld (1973), starring Yul Brynner, and wrote the screenplay for his book, The Great Train Robbery (1978).Ĭrichton's stories generally take place in contemporary settings and focus on technological themes, although his earliest works were traditional mystery novels. Upon leaving medical studies, Crichton began a full-time writing career. While doing postdoctoral work at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, Crichton published The Andromeda Strain (1969), a technological thriller, which garnered literary acclaim and national prominence for the author. Returning to Harvard University in 1965, Crichton entered medical school, where he began to write novels under the pseudonym John Lange in order to support his medical studies. The following year, while on a European travel fellowship in anthropology and ethnology, he met and married Joan Radam they eventually divorced in 1970. At fourteen years of age, he wrote and sold articles to the New York Times travel section, and, in 1964, earned a B. Crichton was born in Chicago and raised on Long Island.
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