With the 30th anniversary of Jurassic Park (film) having just passed, I’ve had Michael Crichton on my mind. I was introduced to him with Prey in middle school (undoubtedly a little early for the material) and I consider his work to be hugely influential in my love for reading today.
Bearing in mind at the end there he got a bit controversial, I still love almost every Crichton book I’ve read and have a few cherished copies of Prey and Airframe in my collection (IMO an underrated title in his backlist).
Are you a Michael Crichton fan and if so which titles do you most enjoy? Who are some other pop fiction authors you enjoy or consider guilty pleasures?
There’s a guy named Steve Perry who made bank writing a bunch of Star Wars and Aliens novels, but he has his own sci fi universe featuring high end space bodyguards called “Matadors”.
The Man Who Never Missed
Matadora
The Machiavelli Interface
That’s the key trilogy, then there are a dozen more or so other books highlighting individual characters.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Perry_(author)
Oh I love good world building and it certainly sounds like these books cover that! I have to admit though when I first started reading your comment I did a double take because my mind went immediately to Steve Perry of Journey - would be pretty impressive if he had moonlit as an author during his touring days!