Michael Crichton? He's Just the Author
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Jane Friedman, the president and chief executive of HarperCollins Publishers, is credited with inventing the author tour.
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Talk about science fiction: Stephen Hawking, author of the million-selling "A Brief History of Time," is writing a "middle-grade" novel.
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What are you doing? I mean, right now. You're reading a book review. A review of a book that, as it happens, is almost certain to become quite famous among intellectuals around the world over the next few ...
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In a note submitted by the folks over at PHPClasses.org, there's details on a change in their book review section. It's no longer just limited to the reviewers the site picks out. Instead, anyone can submit a book review to the site on their choice of PHP book.   Writing books often does not pay enough to compensate the time and skill it takes. Many authors write one book and then move on working on paid consulting as it often pays much better. But writing good books also gets authors good reputation.   The general idea of this effort is to promote more good PHP books thus encouraging more authors out there to get up and get out and write their own quality resources.
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In Michael Crichton's sorry excuse for a thriller, shameless environmentalists use bad science to raise money and draw attention to their cause.
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An exclusive first look at 'Options,' the novel written by Fake Steve Jobs.
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We asked the novelist what he's watching, reading, and listening to.
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The author of 'Musicophilia' and 'Awakenings' chats about what he's reading, watching, and listening to.
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Listening to writer Brian K. Vaughan summarize the plot of his comic book, "Y: The Last Man," makes it sound like just another pulp title.
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Buy what you know? That's just half of the story.
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'Bugger off out the office' FoTW Oh dear, oh dear - it appears CNET's blogging pundits are not actually a legitimate target for us proper hacks, those of us who've done English O-Level and read a couple of novels.â¦
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Michael Crichton is a big man with big ideas, a storyteller of nearly 7 feet who turns popular science into popular fiction.
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The latest work by million-selling novelist Michael Crichton is a futuristic thriller set in the present. "Next," to be released Nov. 28 by HarperCollins, has an announced first printing of 2 million and a storyline the publisher bills as "fast, furious and out of control."
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Author Krystian Bala wrote a grisly bestseller. Now a court has found that the  crime wasn't all in his imagination
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Lucifer knows, he's miserable now In a new book published this week, author Philip Pullman looked back with nostalgia at post-war austerity - and advocated the state cutting off your power as soon as you exceed your Carbon Ration. He also expressed his hope that Polar Bears would kill and eat lots of humans.â¦
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Plot lines from recent books are written by a cast of hundreds, even thousands, of often anonymous contributors who congregate online to write, collaborate, read, analyze and edit each other's words in crowdsourced fiction and nonfiction.
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Dr. Robert Lanza, famous for his stem cell and cloning research, has come up with some ideas he believes will lead to a unified theory of the universe. It's all in the biology, he says. Wired News interview by Aaron Rowe.