Sphere: A Novel

by Michael Crichton

Within a space ship lying on the sea bottom is a mysterious sphere that promises each of the main characters some personal reward: military might, professional prestige, power, understanding. Trapped underwater with the sphere, the humans confront eerie and increasingly dangerous threats after communication with the alien object has been achieved.

• ISBN10: 0345418972
• ISBN13: 9780345418975
• Publish Date: 23 June 1997 (first published 3 September 1987)
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Out of Print: 15 September 2010
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Ballantine Books Inc.
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 371
• Language: English

Reviews

[Mystereity Reviews]

The Andromeda Strain is one of my favorite books (and movie!) but I've never read anything else Crichton has ever written until now. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but I was a little baffled by the plot. It seems like the author got halfway into writing the book and ran out of plot. I thought it was excessively wordy and I flipped through many pages because I just wasn't interested in the psychobabble. Overall a very suspenseful read, a real page turner and I enjoyed it, for the most part. Note: my copy was 498 pages long, about 200 pages more than goodreads listed.