Sphere

"A page-turner...Chichton's writing is cinematic, with powerful visual images and nonstop action. This book should come with hot buttered popcorn."

NEWSWEEK

A group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the ocean floor in the middle of the South Pacific. What they find defines their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logica...

"A page-turner...Chichton's writing is cinematic, with powerful visual images and nonstop action. This book should come with hot buttered popcorn."

NEWSWEEK

A group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the ocean floor in the middle of the South Pacific. What they find defines their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently, undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old....

"The suspense is real."

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

迈克尔·克莱顿（Michael Crichton）,1942年10月42日出生于美国伊利诺伊州的芝加哥。他先后在哈佛大学文系就读，后转读考古人类学系，比毕业后进入医学院继续深造，并于1969年获得哈佛大学医学硕士学位。克莱顿迄今共创作了14部小说，全球总销量已经超过1亿册，并被翻译成30多种文字广泛发行，其中有13部拍摄成电影。在影视伯摄方面，克莱顿也取得了优异的成绩，他所拍摄的影片《急诊室的春天》是美国的高收率剧目。克莱顿还组建了FilmTrack电影软件公司，他所执导的《西方世界》就是世界上首部应用电脑特效的电影。他曾获得过艾米奖、美国广播电视文化成就奖、美国作家协会奖等多项荣誉，1992年的《人物》杂志更将他评为全球50位最高雅人士之一。