After New Republic writer Michael Crowley criticized Crichton's claims about climate change a character with the same name and biography showed up in his latest novel. The same biography plus one other thing, the MIck Crowley in Next by Michael Crichton is a child rapist, an heir to a pharmaceutical fortune, and a "dickhead." (Whether the real Crowley has the "small penis" of the fictional character is unknown.)
I enjoyed Crichton's early work – The Andromeda Strain is a lot of fun, as is Jurassic Park. But he's clearly gone off the deep end a little bit.
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I absolutely guarantee that the President wanted a fine, handcrafted American ale. But I am certain that the conservative press would've jumped this as an "elitist" choice as they did his campaign comments on arugula.
"...Michael Crichton, not content with making up science to debunk global warming, is now taking literary swipes at journalists who write stuff about him that he doesn't like.
PZ's post on Crichton reminded me to point this out. For
those of you who don't know, Michael Crichton got kind of nasty, paying
back a critic by making up a character in a book. The made-up
character had just enough similarity to let us know who he was getting
Aegypt is the name of a fantasy book by John Crowley, as well as the title of yet another non-climate-science post by me. I have loved several of Crowleys books - notably The Deep; Engine Summer; and Beasts.
I used to like Eaters of the Dead, an ethnography-like report written from the POV of a 6th-7th? century Arab that travelled to the "Northland" with some Vikings, and runs into a vistigal population of Neandertals. Crichton is so like dead to me now, though damn it! I receommended it to my 2 oldest kids when they were in 7th grade, but not to my youngest, who is in 7th grade now. He is just too off the deep end. Too bad Mike, or should I say "Mick", as he may be into self-loathing at this point too. Whatever.
A little bit? And he stole the write your enemy as a character with a small penis thing from Anne Lamott, unless she stole it from sombody else. So he's actually a plagarizing and petty egomaniac AND stubbornly confused about science. Yeah, I liked him too, many books ago. No more.
The guy's disdain for science has been apparent since Jurassic Park. It was just another Faustian nightmare (but with rad dinos).
Eaters of the Dead was probably his best. It's been years since I've read it.