Fear of Flying (album) Mýa recorded by the same name — not from Erica Jong's 1973 novel of the same name. During an interview with "Billboard", which discussed the name, Mýa noted that while she had not been aware of the book, she later "started reading it and noticed a lot of similarities: ""Fear of Flying" is a metaphor for the ups and downs of life. It's about handling things like an adult, knowing you must have faith to make anything happen." Interscope hired photographer and director David LaChapelle to shoot the images for the album's packaging. While she admired the work of Dave
State of Fear scientists whose research had been referenced in the novel stated that Crichton had distorted it in the novel. Peter Doran, leading author of the "Nature" paper, wrote in the "New York Times": "our results have been misused as 'evidence' against global warming by Michael Crichton in his novel 'State of Fear. Myles Allen, Head of the Climate Dynamics Group, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, wrote in "Nature" in 2005: Michael Crichton's latest blockbuster, "State of Fear", is also on the theme of global warming and is, ...likely to mislead the unwary... Although this is a work of fiction, Crichton's