The Lost World (Crichton novel)
First edition cover
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| Author | Michael Crichton |
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| Cover artist | Chip Kidd |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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Science fiction Techno-thriller Horror fiction |
| Publisher | Knopf |
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Publication date
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September 8, 1995 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 430 pp. |
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| OCLC | 32924490 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3553.R48 L67 1995b |
| Preceded by | Jurassic Park |
The Lost World is a techno thriller novel written by Michael Crichton and published in 1995 by Knopf. A paperback edition () followed in 1996. It is a sequel to his earlier novel Jurassic Park. In 1997, both novels were re-published as a single book titled Michael Crichton's Jurassic World, unrelated to the 2015 film of the same name.
Six years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, chaos theorist and mathematician Ian Malcolm, who survived the events of the previous novel, teams up with paleontologist Richard Levine to search for a "lost world" of dinosaurs following rumors of strange animal corpses washing up on the shores of Costa Rica. They eventually learn of Site B on Isla Sorna, the "production facility" where the now-defunct company InGen hatched and grew the dinosaurs for their Jurassic Park theme park on nearby Isla Nublar.
Afraid that the Costa Rican government will find Isla Sorna and destroy the dinosaurs, Levine hastily embarks on an expedition to the island without Malcolm, who eventually learns that Levine has gone missing there. Malcolm goes to the island with a rescue team consisting of Jack "Doc" Thorne, an engineer and retired university professor; Eddie Carr, Thorne's assistant; and two stowaway children, R.B. "Arby" Benton and Kelly Curtis, who were working as Levine's research assistants as part of a school project.
The group arrives on the island with weapons and a conjoined pair of RV trailers that serve as a mobile laboratory. They find a geothermal-powered complex of abandoned InGen buildings, including a worker village, and a laboratory that the group explores. They eventually find Levine, who is overjoyed at the trove of information he can glean from this "lost world." Simultaneously, another group—geneticists Lewis Dodgson, Howard King and "celebrity" biologist, George Baselton—learns of Levine's expedition and go to Isla Sorna with plans to steal dinosaur eggs for Biosyn, the rival company of InGen. Dr. Sarah Harding, an animal behaviorist and former lover of Malcolm, is travelling with them. The antagonists attempt to kill her, shoving her off the boat, but she survives.
Levine and Malcolm make many observations of the dinosaurs' behavior from the "high hide", an enclosed blind that is set above the ground on scaffolding. They soon learn that Dodgson's group has arrived on the island. Dodgson's group is attacked by a pair of Tyrannosaurus as they try to steal eggs from the animals' nest, resulting in Baselton's death. Dodgson and King become separated after the attack.
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