The Lost World
by Michael Crichton · first published 1995
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The Lost World is a 1995 techno-thriller novel written by Michael Crichton, and the sequel to his 1990 novel Jurassic Park. It is his tenth novel under his own name and his twentieth overall, and it was published by Knopf. A paperback edition (ISBN 0-345-40288-X) followed in 1996. In 1997, both novels were re-published as a single book titled Michael Crichton's Jurassic World, which is unrelated to the 2015 film of the same name. Contains: [Lost World [2/2]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL25311005W) Also contained in: [Michael Crichton's Ju
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…read the books as a kid. I use the audio-books to tune out the world when working on stuff that does not require my full attention (Listening Goblet of Fire as I type this)... 5. Jurassic Park || The Lost world (Michael Crichton) - Read the books as a kid. I usually listen to it while I am traveling. Still gets me as excited as it did when I first read the book. (The movies are nothing compared to the book...)…
on “Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?” ↗The Lost World - Michael Crichton Harry Potter -
on “Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.” ↗There's a quote in a Michael Crichton novel (The Lost World) that seems relevant here. As part of a rant connecting the idea of the internet and evolution, a character opines: "This idea that the whole world is wired together is mass death. Every biologist knows…
on “Some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity” ↗…stickyness of ideas (across a wider spectrum of merit) and what enables that stickyness. On the topic of popular scifi, I often think back to this exchange between two characters in Michael Crichton's The Lost World (1997), a bestseller at the time: "[...] Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species." - "Yes? Why is that?" "Because it means the end of innovation," Malcolm said. "This idea…
on “€2.6M spent for a book at auction, believed they would own the IP” ↗This is exactly the scenario that was presented by Ian Malcolm in Michael Crichton's The Lost World.
on “How Long Does Mass Extinction Take?” ↗Fiction: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (loved the movie as a kid, but never got round to reading the book), will follow up with the Lost World. Non-Fiction: Chaos by James Gleick. Semester break reading, Real World Ocaml and Modern Compilers in ML (assuming they arrive in time)
on “Ask HN: What are you reading?” ↗This is paraphrased from The Lost World by Michael Crichton. I read it when I was in middle school and it has stuck with me for over 20 years: "Most people are wrong about most things." People give advice that is out of date, just plain wrong,…
on “Ask HN: How do you incorporate advice into your life?” ↗Among his 25+ fiction books plus screenplays, Crichton wrote just two books (Jurassic Park, The Lost World) and one screenplay (Westworld) about theme parks. Not sure how that's an obsession, especially he had to be talked into writing The Lost World by Steven Spielberg, who wanted source material for a sequel…
on “Michael Crichton, Science Studies, and the Technothriller (2015)” ↗…together in cyberspace. And it'll freeze the entire species. Everything will stop dead in its tracks. Everyone will think the same thing at the same time. Global uniformity. [..]” ― Michael Crichton, The Lost World Silicon Valley is suffering by being too middle class - the hubris is coming out of the groupthink. I think it takes a peculiar mixture of working class and middle class thinking to do something really…
on “I’m a very slow thinker (2016)” ↗