To make it, aren't they? You know they're going to make it. But the suspense is real - they are going Johnson's grappling with that enemy doesn't have quite the climactic excitement that it might. Many of us, may have blind spots about answers that cut a little too close to the bone. THE novel's point of view is Johnson's and he is perhaps a bit slow about figuring out what the enemy is - but psychologists, like Without recourse 1,000 dark, hostile, claustrophobic feet down, with monsters stalking them. And, of course, just when things are getting seriously out of hand, a bad storm blows up on the ocean's surface and all the ships have to pull out, leaving our team stranded Terrifying havoc that is wreaked on the contact team. Suffice it to say that the title comes from a mysterious object that is found inside the spaceship, an object that may or may not contain alien life, and that may or may not be responsible for the sudden, Crichton's previous novels include such best sellers as ''The Andromeda Strain'' and ''Congo.'' Part of the fun of ''Sphere'' is that it keeps you going even when you're pretty And from the habitat they walk, awkwardly, in their insulated wet suits, to the door of the spaceship, where. That fit over their throats, so their voices don't squeak). The contact team and its military support group, 10 people in all, are taken 1,000 feet down to the ocean floor, where they will live in a tiny ''divers' habitat'' and breathe helium (they are given little black plastic ''talkers'' Team whose aim is to penetrate a spaceship just discovered on the ocean floor. Now he has been dragged to the middle of the Pacific to be a part of a human contact Johnson needed the money, so he kept a straight face as he wrote a paperĬalled ''Recommendations for the Human Contact Team to Interact with Unknown Life Forms (ULF).'' But he thought it was a joke. Years ago Johnson had been involved in a top-secret Government program to draw up a plan for dealing with an alien invasion.
It's not a plane crash this time - or not exactly. Ocean very far from anything, where a number of United States Navy and oceanographic ships are collected. He receives a mysterious call from the military and is whisked away to a bit of Pacific Norman Johnson is a psychologist who is occasionally called in by the Federal Aviation Administration to help survivors of plane crashes cope with shock and trauma. No one can ask more of a thriller, except maybe that it be a little longer this one ran out sometimeīefore my involuntary tour of the major airports of the United States. ''Sphere'' continued to keep me happy for another half an hour, standing in line to have my ticket rerouted. MICHAEL CRICHTON'S new novel, ''Sphere,'' kept me happy for two hours sitting in a grounded plane while the mechanics or whatever they were tried to decide whether the plane would ever fly again. Her most recent is ''The Hero and the Crown.'' Section 7, Column 4 Book Review Deskīy ROBIN MCKINLEY Robin McKinley is at work on her fourth novel. July 12, 1987, Sunday, Late City Final Edition
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