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Overview. The Lost World (1995) is a sequel to Michael Crichton’s techno-thriller Jurassic Park, a 1990 bestseller. The original novel focuses on an ambitious business plan to hatch live dinosaurs through genetic engineering and then display them in a family-friendly theme park on Isla Nublar off the coast of Costa Rica.
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Plot summary. In August 1993, chaos theorist and mathematician Ian Malcolm — who is revealed to have survived the events of the disaster at Jurassic Park four years before — encounters and reluctantly agrees to team up with wealthy paleontologist Richard Levine.
- Michael Crichton
- 1995
The Lost World is an American techno-thriller novel and the sequel to Jurassic Park, written by Michael Crichton, published on September 8, 1995. The plot sees an expedition led by Ian Malcolm eighteen months after August 1993 embarking to Isla Sorna, "the Lost World".
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The Lost World is the second in a series of books by Michael Crichton about the existence of genetically engineered dinosaurs. In Jurassic Park, the prequel to The Lost World, Crichton introduces a company called InGen, which has discovered a way to clone dinosaurs from ancient DNA.
Oct 5, 1995 · The Lost World is a solid sequel, though it not only suffers by comparison to the original, but it rips Jurassic Park off in places and there are echoes of familiar characters and plot points. Still, it's classic Crichton, mixing intriguing science and gripping action scenes.
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May 23, 1997 · Synopsis. Six years after the death of John Hammond and the mysterious destruction of his Jurassic Park island of Isla Nubla, mathematician Ian Malcolm discovers a second island off Costa Rica, where Hammond created his genetically bred dinosaurs.
Sep 30, 1997 · Now at last in one volume, Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and The Lost World--the two incomparably suspenseful, supremely scary, utterly unputdownable, worldwide best-selling return-of-the-dinosaurs novels, which together constitute Jurassic World. 801 pages, Hardcover.
