Interview with Michael Crichton

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: Beth Anderson

Length: 19 mins

Publisher's summary

Best-selling author Michael Crichton talks with Audible's publisher Beth Anderson about his latest book, State of Fear. In this interview, Crichton explains how he came to rethink common wisdom about global warming. In the three year process of writing and researching the book, Crichton witnessed firsthand how difficult it can be to unearth scientific truth in a heavily politicized atmosphere. He warns against fanaticism and explains why a healthy skepticism is imperative in these fearful times. Listen to our exclusive interview Michael Crichton and learn the real story behind State of Fear.

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Producer: Kerry Donahue
Post-Production Engineer: Gil Hova
(P)2004 Audible, Inc.

Best of class

Michael Crichton reviews the issue of global warming logically and dispassionately. It is a real pleasure to hear a discussion that is not doctrinaire. I recommend this interview to anyone who possesses an open mind or who would like to.

nice background

What did you love best about Interview with Michael Crichton?

It was interesting. You got to hear more about the book & why he wrote it.

Would you ever listen to anything by Michael Crichton again?

Yes - I like his novels.

What aspect of the narrator’s performance would you have changed?

Well, this was an interview - there was no narrator. I thought the interviewer did a good job though.

A major loss

What a great writer and a good source of logic. Too bad someone of his mind is gone. The world lost a wonderment of talent.

Excellent!

A very informative and balanced interview with Michael Crichton on his book "State of Fear", but it really goes much deeper than that. Insight is given into how the book came about and also the life decision and conclusions that Crichton arrived at after 3 years of his own intense research. Highly recommended!!

Interesting.

I enjoyed this interview it was cool to hear the authors thoughts. I'd like more of these if we could.

Crichton is a genius!

I admire MC probably more than any author or person in the world! His insights in technology and consequences are unsurpassed! I enjoyed this interview!

Great perspective on the environment.

This is a free interview on his controversial view of global warming. It's smart, scientific, enlightening and entertaining.

A clear thinker

Such a tragedy he died so young. That he was ostracized for contending that it is pure hubris to make policy based on predictions of the state of a complex, chaotic system 100 years+ in the future shows how dysfunctional and politicized the soft sciences have become. His observation that religion is arguably an anthropological need that many satisfy with fundamentalist attitudes toward environmentalism is a devastating critique that is, of course, dismissed out of hand by those to whom it applies because that's what religious zealots do when their core beliefs are questioned.

A great post reading interview

This is a nice summary of Crichton's motivations in writing this book. Short and sweet.

A bit odd but revealing

A great interview with Michael, where he talks about his growing apathy toward politics and religion and his disdain toward the 'state of fear' in his book. Strange though, because I could have sworn most of his books take advantage of that fear as a primary plot point but don't actually attempt to deny the necessity of it. Ah well.