In a preemptive strike, 20th Century Fox has purchased film rights to Michael Crichton's next novel, "Prey," for close to $5 million. No other studio was granted a shot at the manuscript.

Michael Crichton’s “Prey” (HarperCollins, 384 pages, $26.95) is just what his fans expect: a wild, scary ride in which man’s arrogance almost does him in.Consider “Prey” to be “The ...

Long before he was a hit author who imagined velociraptors terrorizing human prey in Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton was a student at Harvard Medical School — with a secret sideline.. While ...

Michael Crichton novels seem like a pupal stage that comes between a ton of research into a hot topic and an ultimate incarnation as a big-budget film. Strangely, Crichton turned away from a ...

The sorry fact is, nobody stays good at anything for long. It's axiomatic that most scientists do their best work before they hit 30. Less remarked on is that just about everybody else does, too ...