Do they prove his point?) Unfortunately, both groups are wrong, but not for that reason. How dare Crichton, such an esteemed novelist, publish something so backward, regressive, and ignorant? ( Very ironically, some of these critical reviews sound a great deal like the ignorant characters in Crichton’s novel. On the other side stand the group who hate it for precisely the same reason. These readers are excited that someone as esteemed as Crichton would stand up publicly and publish such an unmasked critique of the global warming movement. On one side stands a group who love the book, and they love it chiefly for its suspicion of global warming. If you were to read some reviews of the novel you would quickly discover two camps of critics. For these reasons it can be an infuriating book to read. Every single one of these conversations feels forced, and one gets the feeling that they exist as an excuse for Crichton to tell us what he thinks. They preach (with footnotes) data-driven contradictions to the ill-reflected global warming rhetoric. Counterpoint to such figures, Crichton’s sceptics have wised up to the global warming façade. They spout speeches about the need for saving the planet, all the while quoting dreamily from half-baked sources and displaying, overall, great ignorance of the real data about the natural world. Advocates, having drunk the global warming Kool-Aid, are universally foolish.
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A main mechanism for this transition is a series of conversations that Crichton arranges between advocates and sceptics.
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The main character is a man who begins as a full global warming supporter, is brought to question these convictions, and concludes as a sceptic. However, it is seriously hindered by a farfetched plot, ham-fisted dialogue, and the strange interplay of Crichton-esque science-fiction and what appears to be his underlying message of suspicion about global warming. The novel contains many of the hallmarks of Crichton’s style-mysterious, business-like characters with unclear motives, stooges who die out of ignorance, a scientific ‘feel’ including diagrams, research, and charts, and so forth. Catastrophic weather events are timed to coincide with global warming announcements so that people will ‘wake up’ to the looming danger of climate change. State of Fear is a novel about global warming-put succinctly, it is about a conspiracy of left-wing environmentalists who attempt to orchestrate a series of environmental disasters in order to bolster their position as global warming advocates. With that in mind, you’ll appreciate some context, and disappointment, behind my claim that State of Fear is the worst Michael Crichton novel I have ever read. I went on to read many of his other novels, enjoying them to similar effect- Sphere and Airframe, Eaters of the Dead and Prey. I never knew there could be books like this in the world, and Crichton’s inventiveness, plausibility, and capacity to generate thrills were addictive. The experience was, to my thirteen-year-old self, life-changing. We will delete it ASAP.I’ve been a Michael Crichton fan since I was in the eighth grade and read Jurassic Park for the first time. If you see a title with a spoiler in it, downvote it as hard as you can and then message the moderators. PLEASE DO NOT POST SPOILERS IN YOUR SUBMISSION TITLE. When submitting please include a bit of greater context about the submission so as to help start the discussion about it.
Science Fiction, or Speculative Fiction if you prefer.
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