--Tracey Miller

Internettled: Though technology has been very, very good to Michael Crichton (witness his best-selling novel Disclosure), the author has a megabyte or two to pick with the Internet. Crichton has been peeved ever since a misattributed version of his Jurassic Park script appeared online. "It was a draft by a writer who worked on the film for Steven Spielberg," says the novelist. "This writer put my name on the cover page. It wasn't anything to do with what I had written." Crichton extends his criticism to cybermovies, too, claiming they lack "human values." Is there anything the author likes about the Net these days? Not much. Says Crichton: "The World Wide Web is the world's most boring shopping mall."

--Harold Goldberg

Originally posted Dec 08, 1995 Published in issue #304 Dec 08, 1995 Order article reprints
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