How Michael Crichton invented the medical drama – and everything else on our screens

Jurassic Park, Westworld, ER... Crichton’s enormous legacy is still being fought over. But who was this eccentric ‘one-man zeitgeist’?

by Ed Power 

10 January 2025 12:30pm GMT

In the mid-1990s, a cartoon in the New Yorker depicted a woman in a bookshop asking, “What can you recommend that’s not by Michael Crichton...

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Learn to Speak Australian

I'm a fan of the "Learn to Speak Australian" advertizing campaign. This is also the 20th anniversary of Jurassic Park hitting theatres - - June 11, 1993. Twenty years ago, I had to wait two more days to watch it on June 13. The longest two days of my life.