The Lost World

The Lost World (1995) is a sequel to Michael Crichton’s techno-thriller Jurassic Park, a 1990 bestseller. The original novel focuses on an ambitious business plan to hatch live dinosaurs through genetic engineering and then display them in a family-friendly theme park on Isla Nublar off the coast of Costa Rica. The plan goes awry when the great animals take over the island and compel the company that initially bankrolled the park, In-Gen, to destroy the park and all the animals. The Lost World picks up the storyline nearly five years after the theme park disaster. When carcasses of unidentifiable creatures begin to wash up on Costa Rican beaches, rumors circulate that InGen’s project may have left some loose ends.

Given the international success of Jurassic Park and the subsequent blockbuster film directed by Steven Spielberg (1993), interest in The Lost World was high—the book was a number one New York Times bestseller for nearly two months. Sales took off again in the summer of 1997 following a film adaptation. Although many of the elements of the original play out in the sequel, The Lost World focuses less on the dinosaur chases and the ferocious attacks and more on Crichton’s fascination with the process of evolution itself and

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