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Michael Crichton, RIP

Damn.
He was only 66.
Jurassic Park was the best of his novels that I read, and The Andromeda Strain was probably the best movie adapted from one of his books.

The Alpha Incident, 1977

Suppose you were in charge of a government operation. The purpose of that operation, for the moment, is to transport some hazardous material cross-country, without drawing attention to it. Suppose further that you don’t have much knowledge of how dangerous (or not) this material might be. And that it came from Mars, [...]