New Crichton novel coming in the fall

New Crichton novel coming in the fall

Publisher HarperCollins has announced that a new novel from Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton with help by Richard Preston will be out in November. The publisher describes the posthumous Micro as "a high concept thriller in the vein of Jurassic Park."

Crichton, who died in 2008 after a battle with cancer, had written one-third of Micro, a thriller about a biotech company in Hawaii and graduate students who end up stranded in a rain forest. Preston, known for his best-selling nonfiction work about the Ebola virus, The Hot Zone, turned to the late author's outline, reference materials and notes to complete the book.

"Michael was writing at the top of his game, with a grand sense of adventure, into an eerie world that seems almost beyond imagining," Preston says in a statement. "For me, it was an irresistible challenge to finish the novel, and I was driven by a desire to honor the work and imagination of one of our time's most visionary and creative authors."

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