Michael Crichton: Sphere (USA 2016)

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"Crichton keeps us guessing at every turn in his best work since The Andromeda Strain." -- Los Angeles Times

In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. 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. But even more fantastic -- and frightening -- is what waits inside...

"A page-turner with oomph... Crichton's writing is cinematic, with powerful visual images and nonstop action." -- Newsweek

"Sphere may be Crichton's best novel, but even if it ranked only second or third, it would be a must for suspense fans." -- Miami Herald

Michael Crichton: Sphere. HarperCollins, ISBN: 9780062428868 (January, 2016), 510 p., $14.99.

Michael Crichton: Sphere (USA 2011)

From the Publisher:
In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. 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.

But even more fantastic -- and frightening -- is what waits inside...

Michael Crichton: Sphere. Harper, ISBN: 9780061990557 (March, 2011), 544 p., $9.99.

Michael Crichton: Sphere (UK 1998)

From the Publisher:
Classic Crichton thriller about a mysterious spherical spaceship at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, from the author of Jurassic Park
Within a space ship lying on the sea bottom is a mysterious sphere that promises each of the main characters some personal reward: military might, professional prestige, power, understanding. Trapped underwater with the sphere, the humans confront eerie and increasingly dangerous threats after communication with the alien object has been achieved.

Michael Crichton: Sphere. Pan, ISBN: 0330301276 (August, 1998), 500 p., £5.99.

Michael Crichton: Sphere (USA 1993)

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In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor.

Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend together into the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery.

What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently undamaged by disc its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old…

Michael Crichton: Sphere. Ballantine, ISBN: 0345353145 (January, 1993), 371 p., $5.99.

Michael Crichton: Sphere (USA 1988)

From the Publisher:
In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge spaceship is discovered resting on the ocean floor...
Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend together into the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery. What they find defies 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...

Has the ship come from an alien culture? From a different universe? From the future? Why, initially, are there no creatures on the sea floor, and then, suddenly, swarms of "impossible animals" of whole new species? Who-or what-is transmitting messages onto the scientists' computer screen... messages that grow increasingly hostile? What is the giant, perfect, metallic sphere -- clearly not made by man, and seemingly impenetrable by him -- that they find inside the spaceship? And-most crucially-what is the extraordinary, the terrifying power that threatens their undersea habitat, and their very lives?...

Here is Michael Crichton at the top of his form-his most exciting, most suspenseful, most ingenious novel since The Andromeda Strain

Michael Crichton: Sphere. Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN: 0394561104 (August, 1988), 385 p., $4.95.

Michael Crichton: Sphere (UK 1987)

From the Publisher:
From the author of The Andromeda Strain comes his most powerful and terrifying novel yet. Sphere is Michael Crichton at the top of his form, combining action, suspense and intellectual adventure in a story that probes the darkest resources of the mind - where man's deadliest enemy is himself.

In the South Pacific, 1,000 feet below the surface of the water, a space ship rests on the ocean floor - a space ship at least 300 years old...

Rushed to the scene are four scientists an astrophysicist, a biologist, a mathematician and a psychologist. Together they descend into the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing find, to search for answers.

Has it come from an alien culture? From a different universe? From the future? What is the giant, perfect, silver sphere - clearly not made by man and seemingly impenetrable by him that they find inside the ship? Who - or what - is transmitting messages onto their computer screen: messages that grow increasingly hostile?

And -- most crucially -- what is the extraordinary, the terrifying power that threatens to destroy their underwater habitat, and then their very lives?

Michael Crichton: Sphere. Macmillan, ISBN: 0333452984 (September, 1987), 385 p., £10.95.

Michael Crichton: Sphere (USA 1987)

From the Publisher:
In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge spaceship is discovered resting on the ocean floor...
Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend together into the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery. What they find defies 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...

Has the ship come from an alien culture? From a different universe? From the future? Why, initially, are there no creatures on the sea floor, and then, suddenly, swarms of "impossible animals" of whole new species? Who-or what-is transmitting messages onto the scientists' computer screen... messages that grow increasingly hostile? What is the giant, perfect, metallic sphere -- clearly not made by man, and seemingly impenetrable by him -- that they find inside the spaceship? And-most crucially-what is the extraordinary, the terrifying power that threatens their undersea habitat, and their very lives...

Here is Michael Crichton at the top of his form-his most exciting, most suspenseful, most ingenious novel since The Andromeda Strain

Michael Crichton: Sphere. Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN: 0394561104 (June, 1987), 385 p., $17.95.