Jurassic Park-author and climate change-denier Michael Crichton is in London signing copies of his new novel State of Fear, about Eco-Terroists who use machines to fake environmental disasters
Not content with writing sexist garbage like "Disclosure", and setting back Japanese-American relations 50 years with "Rising Sun", Michael Crichton is now demonising environmentalists with his new novel.
Crichton already nailed his right-wing colours to the mast over the matter of climate change with a 2000 lecture entitled, "Aliens Cause Global Warming". His scientifically-dubious argument was that climate change was an ideologically-motivated theory, like the existence of aliens (because, of course, Mr. Crichton is entirely untainted by ideology). Ergo there's no way to predict the next 100 years, so why do anything. QED, or something...
His new novel goes further, with a plot about eco-terrorists creating climate chaos in order to stop honest good-ol'-boy Americans driving their freedom-lovin' SUVs. Review here:
http://www.slate.com/id/2110815/
He's in London signing the novel tomorrow. Don't know if anyone's planning anything but it'd be cool if he could receive a warm London welcome.
Details below:
"Michael Crichton - State of Fear
W1, Waterstone's Piccadilly. Free
203-206 Piccadilly
Underground: Green Park and Piccadilly Circus
Saturday, 11-Dec-04, 11am
Michael Crichton - State of Fear
In this exclusive UK signing, the internationally renowned author of 'Jurassic Park' will be signing copies of his gripping new techno-thriller, 'State of Fear'.
Signing - no ticket required
For further information please contact the following number or e-mail:
enquiries@piccadilly.www.waterstones.co.uk.
Phone: 020-7851-2400
Dates
Saturday 11 December
Be sure to check details with the organizers before you go."
Crichton already nailed his right-wing colours to the mast over the matter of climate change with a 2000 lecture entitled, "Aliens Cause Global Warming". His scientifically-dubious argument was that climate change was an ideologically-motivated theory, like the existence of aliens (because, of course, Mr. Crichton is entirely untainted by ideology). Ergo there's no way to predict the next 100 years, so why do anything. QED, or something...
His new novel goes further, with a plot about eco-terrorists creating climate chaos in order to stop honest good-ol'-boy Americans driving their freedom-lovin' SUVs. Review here:
http://www.slate.com/id/2110815/ He's in London signing the novel tomorrow. Don't know if anyone's planning anything but it'd be cool if he could receive a warm London welcome.
Details below:
"Michael Crichton - State of Fear
W1, Waterstone's Piccadilly. Free
203-206 Piccadilly
Underground: Green Park and Piccadilly Circus
Saturday, 11-Dec-04, 11am
Michael Crichton - State of Fear
In this exclusive UK signing, the internationally renowned author of 'Jurassic Park' will be signing copies of his gripping new techno-thriller, 'State of Fear'.
Signing - no ticket required
For further information please contact the following number or e-mail:
enquiries@piccadilly.www.waterstones.co.uk. Phone: 020-7851-2400
Dates
Saturday 11 December
Be sure to check details with the organizers before you go."
Comments
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Winning
11.12.2004 17:06
Vegan Ritchie
I want some facts, please!
12.12.2004 01:41
review is by the WSJ, which supports the book, unsurprisingly. Almost
all the text on the environmental side (the side I am inclined towards)
is of the name calling variety, that says almost nothing to actually
attack the book's arguments. I have no interest in attacks on Crichton -
I think he writes decent thrillers, they are thrillers, not literature,
not science. I am very interested in trying to understand as best I
can the nature of the actual argument and the data at the heart of
the book.
bine
jurassic park
12.12.2004 17:33
Enoch Hitler
e-mail:
Jimmy@fcukfayce.com
Be fair...
23.12.2004 15:24
General abuse of him gets us nowehere, just as he argues in his essay that general abuse rather than rational debate and scientific proof is the way forward.
Ted