Michael Crichton was a master of sci-fi and techno ... the globe to thwart these catastrophic events. Storywise, State of Fear is bog-standard but pleasing stuff, serving up a suitably propulsive ...

The prolific writer Michael Crichton Credit ... In the end, Crichton was cancelled after a fashion. In his 2004 novel States of Fear, deranged environmental activists exaggerate the threat ...