Word just came out that Michael Crichton's technothriller novel, Micro, will be published November 22, 2011. According to an Associated Press story, Micro, which Crichton had written a third of before he died, has been completed by science writer Richard Preston. The novel will be "a thriller about a biotech company in Hawaii and the graduate students who end up stranded and endangered in a rain forest. Preston, known for his best-selling nonfiction work about the Ebola virus, 'The Hot Zone,' used Crichton’s outline, reference materials and notes to finish the book."
Preston commented:
“Michael was writing at the top of his game, with a grand sense of adventure, into an eerie world that seems almost beyond imagining,” Preston said. “For me, it was an irresistible challenge to finish the novel, and I was driven by a desire to honor the work and imagination of one of our time’s most visionary and creative authors.”
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4 comments:
yippppppppppeeee......so the new MC is officially announced.
Happy that Richard Preston was invovled with completion of the work. He is an auithor who is a doyen in his own right....
and one more query, who was the co-author of PIRATE LATITUDES??
cant wait for nov.
Pirate Latitudes did not have a co-author. The novel was discovered in Crichton's files after he died. It's definitely his work, though I don't think Crichton had finished his own revisions. There were a few things that I believe he may have changed before publication.
WOW, I'm so excited for the new novel! And Preston was a good choice, I think.
Press release on the official website has much more pieces of information (plot, what notes Michael left, part of his unfinished introduction to the book etc.)! http://www.michaelcrichton.com/books-micro.html
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