Fear of Flying (novel) with Julia Phillips, who fantasized that it would be her debut as a director. The deal fell through and Erica Jong litigated, unsuccessfully. In her second novel, Jong created the character Britt Goldstein—easily identifiable as Julia Phillips—a predatory and self-absorbed Hollywood producer devoid of both talent and scruples. In May 2013 it was announced that a screenplay version by Piers Ashworth had been green-lighted by Blue-Sky Media, with Laurie Collyer directing. Fear of Flying (novel) Fear of Flying is a 1973 novel by Erica Jong which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured in the development
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