The Sphere, the mystery of it, is merely the catalyst around which Crichton has penned this excellent character study. It's about what people can do when they're taken to their limits. It's about how people handle stress and how they can rise to the occasion, or break beneath the strain. But that's not what the story is truly about. The answers for the story are found if you read carefully. Cricton goes a great job setting up the mystery and how it affects the characters. And that's before things start going weird. The unknown lurks around them, affecting them all as they struggle to understand just what they have discovered. It's told from the psychologist point of view and it delves into many aspects of emotional reactions and Jungian's theory of the shadow self. Can Norman keep the group functional when the discover the Sphere lurking in the heart of the craft? Crichton's Sphere is an interesting take on the first contact with aliens story. Staying in cramped quarters, surrounded by the crushing depths of the sea where a small mistake could get them all killed, the pressures are incredible.
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A team of scientists, recommended by Norman, and a group of navy personal are tasked with uncovering what is and, if anything is alive, how to communicate with it. A craft that has been down there for at least 300 years. A thousand feet beneath the ocean, something has been found. Now, he is about to put his hypothesis to the test. He said abject terror would be the result when humans were confronted with the unknown. Once upon a time, a younger Norman, desperate for grant money, wrote a report for the government about how to handle first contact with alien intelligence. It turns out to be something far stranger.
So when he's escorted by the US Navy out to the South Pacific he assumes a plane has crashed into the ocean. He is often called out by the FAA to help survivors of plane crashes and their families deal with the aftermath. Norman Johnson is a psychologist specialized in how stress affects group dynamics. He went on to become the Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Fellow from 1964 to 1965 and Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom in 1965.An exciting thriller at the bottom of the sea! He was also initiated into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. His issues with the English department led Crichton to switch his course to biological anthropology as an undergraduate, obtaining his A.B. The paper was returned by his unwitting professor with a mark of “B-“. Informing another professor of his suspicions, Crichton plagiarized a work by George Orwell and submitted it as his own. During his undergraduate study in literature, he conducted an experiment to catch out a professor whom he believed to be giving him abnormally low marks and criticizing his literary style. Crichton had always planned on becoming a writer and began his studies at Harvard College in 1960. Crichton showed a keen interest in writing from a young age and at the age of 14 had a column related to travel published in The New York Times. He was raised on Long Island, in Roslyn, New York, and had three siblings: two sisters, Kimberly and Catherine, and a younger brother, Douglas. John Michael Crichton was born in Chicago Illinois, to John Henderson Crichton, a journalist, and Zula Miller Crichton, on October 23, 1942. He was the author of, among others, Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Travels, Sphere, Rising Sun, Disclosure, The Lost World, Airframe, Timeline, Prey, State of Fear, Next (the final book published before his death), Pirate Latitudes (published November 24, 2009), and a final unfinished techno-thriller, Micro, which was published in November 2011. Many of his future history novels have medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his medical training and science background. His novels epitomize the techno-thriller genre of literature, often exploring technology and failures of human interaction with it, especially resulting in catastrophes with biotechnology. His literary works are usually based on the action genre and heavily feature technology. In 1994, Crichton became the only creative artist ever to have works simultaneously charting at #1 in television, film, and book sales (with ER, Jurassic Park, and Disclosure, respectively). His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and many have been adapted into films.
John Michael Crichton (Octo– November 4, 2008), best known as Michael Crichton, was an American best-selling author, producer, director, and screenwriter, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and thriller genres.
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