Sphere
About this book
Sphere is a 1987 novel by Michael Crichton, his sixth novel under his own name and his sixteenth overall.
The story follows Norman Johnson, a psychologist engaged by the United States Navy, who joins a team of scientists assembled to examine a spacecraft of unknown origin discovered on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The novel begins as a science fiction story but quickly transforms into a psychological thriller, developing into an exploration of the nature of the human imagination.
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See also:
- Sphere
Also contained in:
- Congo / Sphere / Eaters of the Dead
Subjects
- astrophysicists
- chang pian xiao shuo
- claustrophobia
- deep sea habitats
- diving chambers
- explosives
- fiction
- fiction, action & adventure
- fiction, science fiction, general
- giant squid
- life on other planets
- marine biologists
- mathematicians
- open library staff picks
- psychologists
- psychology
- science fiction
- scientists
- space ships
- space vehicles
- squid
- time travel
- twenty thousand leagues under the sea
- united states navy
- zoologists