Jurassic Park

by Michael Crichton · 1990

Paleontologist Alan Grant and a small group of scientists are invited to inspect billionaire John Hammond's island resort, where dinosaurs have been cloned from ancient DNA, just before the park's security systems fail and the animals get loose.

Books that mention Jurassic Park (3)

• The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson: “The elevator pitch: A Beautiful Mind meets Jurassic Park.”
• The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green: “Until 1990, when Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park was published, velociraptors were not particularly well-known dinosaurs.”
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari: “And not just dinosaurs, as in Jurassic Park”