Sphere - Michael Crichton

Sphere

By Michael Crichton

  • Release Date: 1987-05-12
  • Genre: Adventure Sci-Fi
4 Score: 4 (From 538 Ratings)

Description

From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Congo comes a psychological thriller about a group of scientists who investigate a spaceship discovered on the ocean floor.
 
In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface, a huge vessel is unearthed. Rushed to the scene is a team of American scientists who descend together into the depths to investigate the astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship, but apparently it is undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old, containing a terrifying and destructive force that must be controlled at all costs.
 

Reviews

  • Great book to very end

    4
    By Carving gal
    Edge of my seat.

  • A few disappointments

    4
    By EvenhandedOne
    Generally satisfying, though not the end I’d have wanted. Also a couple of disconnects. All the stated evidence was that the ship had been buried ~300 years, but the characters decided it was only 50 years departed and must have traveled back in time about 350 years. They assumed dates on equipment (did/mm/yy) had to be 50 years in the future; but just as easily they could have been multiple centuries in the future because the first 2 digits of the year were not a matter of discovered record.

  • Wow

    5
    By one time denver-ite
    Incredible read. My first Crichton and definitely not my last.

  • Pretty fun yarn

    4
    By Paris McDoogal
    I kind of got twist-and-turn fatigue towards the last third of the book. For me I think the forward motion in the beginning was more enjoyable than the ending, which felt a little overwrought to me. The first part of the book had me looking forward to a horror sci-fi romp a la Alien or Predator but what it ended up being was more of a speculative fiction action story with some hit or miss character drama. I wish he didn’t tease me with an ominous and foreboding first half if he wasn’t going to deliver on the scares later on. The book was very easy to read and keeps your interest. Overall decent pop fiction.

  • Ok Read

    4
    By C E Lee
    Not my fave book of his but still an interesting story. A difficult story to write for anyone I enjoyed it

  • Crichton’s Worst by far

    2
    By tjnoakes
    I have read 5 of Crichton’s works. Timeline and Congo being my favourites. This is by far the least imaginative and most predictable. The psychological theme in this book is an absolute fail. Spoiler alert, the “We will decide to forget” ending. What a joke!

  • Dr. Mo Rosen

    4
    By Dr. Mo Rosen
    The sphere is a great book, I’ve read more then once, the mix of humor, plot, fear, that goes on in that book is phenomenal. Signed, Dr. Mo Rosen P.H.D.

  • Sphere

    4
    By Gutamamalteco
    Always the unexpected

  • SPHERE

    4
    By Icculus08
    Sphere is brilliant. It executes the thought of intelligent life elsewhere and suggests the allure of contact to such life undeniable in our current form. Eventually, asking if the "super-ego"can be taken from such meeting. A sort of precursor in selflessness necessary to make the stride for understanding. Unlocked to the highest intellectual bidder the sphere conquers human intellect. Ultimately, demonstrating our species inability to control an emotional intellect necessary in such aforementioned meeting while also questioning our ability to cope in high stress environments. Sphere forces a reflection, asking if we are even ready. Then it is gone.

  • Sphere

    5
    By Michael chrighton
    It was the best book I've ever read it was fast paced and when things seem to add up more things get uncovered

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