Sphere

Paperback, 522 pages

English language

Published April 7, 2011 by Harper.

ISBN:
978-0-06-204491-4
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OCLC Number:
897563429

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In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old.

But even more fantastic—and frightening—is what waits inside… --back cover

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Psychological drama under the sea

This is my fourth Michael Chrichton book, and I am beginning to understand the template. An expert in his field, pulled away to an isolated location, where humans are meddling with forces beyond their full understanding. The under water setting was unnerving. It worked. I turned the pages.

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Subjects

  • Science fiction
  • Small groups
  • Life on other planets
  • Marine ecology
  • Reading circles
  • Time travel
  • Fiction