Jurassic Park (novel)

Crichton, Michael. Jurassic Park. New York: Knopf, 1990. New York: Ballantine-Random, 1991.

A homage of sorts to the 1950s "creature-feature" film and the SF/disaster movies described and analyzed by S. Sontag in "The Imagination of Disaster." Relevant here as a continuation of MC's study of systems started in The Andromeda Strain (along with P. S. Alterman on "[[Neuron and Junction: Patterns of Thought in The Andromeda Strain
 * Neuron and Junction]]"). Also relevant for the handling of the relationships among Control (the highly coputerized control room for Jurassic Park), The Park itself, and the dinosaurs; the control assumed by the designers of the park is dangerously illusory, an illusion exploded repeatedly by references to Chaos Theory, with the social relevance for Chaos Theory as a paradigm shift away the classic "scientific world view" re-iterated (sic) several times. (RDE, 05/05/93)