He sat on his bunk, holding the notebook in his hands. It involves time travel.įor the first few chapters, I found Crichton’s prose refreshingly sparse. Suffice to say that whoever comes into contact with a certain sphere gets reality-warper powers. Some of what happens next is spoileriffic. Norman and a team of scientists he hand-selected go to a deep-sea habitat to investigate the wreck. Because of Norman’s previous work on group dynamics, the Navy has given him the job of keeping the crew from freaking out in the face of alien life. The downed plane turns out to be a spacecraft. Norman Johnson, professor of psychology, gets called in by the Navy to investigate a plane crash in the Pacific Ocean. I don’t think Michael Crichton meant Sphere to come out sounding that way, but his characters are so paper-thin there’s nothing left of them but their stereotypes. The white man saves the day by being more emotionally stable than them. The black man and the white woman can’t handle the power and nearly get the group killed. A black man, a white man, and a white woman all get the power to warp reality to their will.
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