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Jurassic Park
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Overview
Jurassic Park is a science-fiction thriller novel written by American author Michael Crichton and first published in 1990. It chronicles the story of an eccentric genetics CEO who builds an amusement park containing live dinosaurs cloned from ancient DNA. The book was followed by a sequel in 1995, The Lost World. Jurassic Park has been adapted into one of the most successful movie franchises of all time, with the first movie released in 1993 and the entire franchise grossing over $5 billion worldwide as of 2022.
Other works by this author include The Andromeda Strain, State of Fear, and The Great Train Robbery.
This guide uses the 2015 Ballantine Books Mass Market Edition of the novel.
Plot Summary
Jurassic Park introduces its premise with a warning about the corruption of modern science: It is unchecked, based on profit, and unparalleled in human history in its achievements. Molecular biology is a particularly dangerous and profitable field which has seen massive growth in recent years. In an attempt to be ahead of its rivals, InGen, a company run by eccentric John Hammond, fools investors into funding the creation of an amusement park containing real live dinosaurs.
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