When I
started reading the debut novel by Michael Crichton I certainly did not expect
to find myself already facing a little masterpiece. My expectations were low,
however, they have been denied by a book that I feel compelled to include among
my absolute favourites.
Maybe
because of the matter (biology), which I know well, and therefore I was able to
fully understand every passage of the work. Maybe because of the very original
author's choice to present the novel as if it were a report of something really
happened, including the credits at the beginning signed MC. Maybe because what
is told could really have happened or could happen at any time.
In one way
or another I found myself literally devouring this book in a few days and
almost missing it when it was not with me.
Perhaps the
most compelling aspect of Crichton's works is that in them science is not an
excuse to tell a story. On the contrary, the story is an excuse to talk about
science. So much that his novels are accompanied by an extensive bibliography,
as if they were non-fiction books.
The real
regret is that this author has died and that, although I still have to read
some of his works, sooner or later they will end up.
However, he
is a source of great inspiration to me and to those like me, man and woman of
science, who loves literature.
The Andromeda Strain
on Amazon.com.
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