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In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge spaceship is discovered resting on the ocean floor.
Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend together into the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery.
What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old...
Has the ship come from an alien culture? From a different universe? From the future? Why, initially, are there no creatures on the sea floor, and then, suddenly, swarms of "impossible animals" of whole new species? Who-or what-is transmitting messages onto the scientists' computer screen...messages that grow increasingly hostile? What is the giant, perfect, metallic sphere-clearly not made by man, and seemingly impenetrable by him-that they find inside the spaceship? And-most crucially-what is the extraordinary, the terrifying power that threatens their undersea habitat, and their very lives?...
Here is Michael Crichton at the top of his form-his most exciting, most suspenseful, most ingenious novel since The Andromeda Strain
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space ships, space vehicles, squid, psychology, giant squid, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, explosives, diving chambers, claustrophobia, psychologists, mathematicians, zoologists, astrophysicists, marine biologists, United States Navy, deep sea habitats, time travel, Life on other planets, Open Library Staff Picks, Juvenile fiction, Scientists, Fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Chang pian xiao shuo, Fiction, science fiction, generalPeople
Jerry, Norman Johnson, Harold Adams, Elizabeth Halpern, Theodore Fielding, Arthur Levine, Harold C. Barnes, Alice Fletcher, Tina Chan, Rose Levy, Jane EdmundsPlaces
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(Sfeer): Sphere
1998, Luitingh-Sijthoff
Mass Market Paperback
in Dutch
- Vierde druk; movie tie-in
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Sphère: roman
1998?, R. Laffont
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in French
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Sphere
1996?, Ballantine Books
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Sphere is a 1987 novel by Michael Crichton, his sixth novel under his own name and his sixteenth overall.
The story follows Norman Johnson, a psychologist engaged by the United States Navy, who joins a team of scientists assembled to examine a spacecraft of unknown origin discovered on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The novel begins as a science fiction story but quickly transforms into a psychological thriller, developing into an exploration of the nature of the human imagination.
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