Have you ever read State of Fear?
I don't really recommend it.
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IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 1 day agoThis was the first Crichton novel I read, and it got me into his other works. Most of them have the common theme of:
That formula doesn’t really detract from any of his books, but I did laugh when I had read enough of his catalog to see the pattern.
Have you ever read State of Fear?
I don't really recommend it.
Is that the climate change denial one?
Yes.
Not to nitpick, but it’s only been a single page and I already feel like the author has over used the word “said”, is all the dialogue this bad?
Not really. There’s just a lot of characters in that scene (Muldoon, Hammond, Wu, Arnold, and Gennaro) all with dialog.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is a structure even more common than just one author. It needs a name like the hero’s journey has. Heck, your summary works for Alien Ressurection!
I nominate “Science goes wrong”
rbos@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
I can’t dive into tvtropes right now, but I’ve got dollar on someone having coined a term already.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
The secret/nefarious science place with a thousand big red buttons?
Sergio@lemmy.world 1 day ago
One term is “techno-thriller”. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-thriller
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That is more of an action vibe than a horror vibe though.
kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 day ago
Ludd Was Right
cisc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
or “science goes BOOOM”?