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Michael Crichton, the novelist and creative force behind the television series ER, has died. He was 66 and had cancer. Best known for the novel Jurassic Park and its sequel, The Lost World, he was regarded as the father of the techno thriller, entertaining readers with modern-age nightmares involving rogue scientists and the consequences of technology turning against humans.
A sequel titled The Lost World, also written by Crichton, was published in 1995. In 1997, both novels were re-published as a single book titled Michael Crichton's Jurassic World, unrelated to the film of the same name. In 1993, Steven Spielberg adapted the book into the blockbuster film Jurassic Park. The book's sequel, The Lost World, was also adapted by Spielberg into a film in 1997.