For a long time the horizon had been a monotonous flat blue line separating the Pacific Ocean from the sky.
An edition of Sphere
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Sphere
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In the South Pacific, 1000 feet beneath the surface, a spaceship rests on the ocean floor - a spaceship at least 300 years old. Has it come from an alien culture? From a different universe? From the future?
Four scientists are rushed to the scene: an astrophysicist, a biologist, a mathematician and a psychologist and together they descend into the depths of the sea to investigate.
The riddle seems unsolvable. Then someone or something begins to transmit messages onto their computer screen: messages that grow increasingly hostile and hint at a terrifying power...
SPHERE is Michael Crichton at the top of his form. An astounding combination of action, suspense and science that probes the darkest corners of the mind where man's deadliest enemy lurks.
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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
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1998, Luitingh-Sijthoff
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Originally published: London: Macmillan, 1987.
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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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