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minus-squareIced Raktajino@startrek.websiteOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 month agoThis was the first Crichton novel I read, and it got me into his other works. Most of them have the common theme of: There’s a secret science place where science happens At event causes people not normally associated with the secret science place to have to go to the secret science place The secret science at the secret science place goes horribly wrong The secret science place blows up in the end That formula doesn’t really detract from any of his books, but I did laugh when I had read enough of his catalog to see the pattern.
minus-squaresnooggums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoThis is a structure even more common than just one author. It needs a name like the hero’s journey has. Heck, your summary works for Alien Ressurection! I nominate “Science goes wrong”
minus-squareRob Bos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI can’t dive into tvtropes right now, but I’ve got dollar on someone having coined a term already.
minus-squareSergio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoOne term is “techno-thriller”. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-thriller
minus-squareAliasVortex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoNot to nitpick, but it’s only been a single page and I already feel like the author has over used the word “said”, is all the dialogue this bad?
minus-squareIced Raktajino@startrek.websiteOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoNot really. There’s just a lot of characters in that scene (Muldoon, Hammond, Wu, Arnold, and Gennaro) all with dialog.
This was the first Crichton novel I read, and it got me into his other works. Most of them have the common theme of:
That formula doesn’t really detract from any of his books, but I did laugh when I had read enough of his catalog to see the pattern.
This is a structure even more common than just one author. It needs a name like the hero’s journey has. Heck, your summary works for Alien Ressurection!
I nominate “Science goes wrong”
I can’t dive into tvtropes right now, but I’ve got dollar on someone having coined a term already.
One term is “techno-thriller”. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-thriller
Not to nitpick, but it’s only been a single page and I already feel like the author has over used the word “said”, is all the dialogue this bad?
Not really. There’s just a lot of characters in that scene (Muldoon, Hammond, Wu, Arnold, and Gennaro) all with dialog.