An edition of Sphere (1980)

Sphere

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Cover of: Sphere by Michael Crichton
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An edition of Sphere (1980)

Sphere

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  • ★★★★ 4.23 ·
  • 13 Ratings
  • 137 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 34 Have read

Sphere is a 1987 novel by Michael Crichton, his sixth novel under his own name and his sixteenth overall.

The story follows Norman Johnson, a psychologist engaged by the United States Navy, who joins a team of scientists assembled to examine a spacecraft of unknown origin discovered on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The novel begins as a science fiction story but quickly transforms into a psychological thriller, developing into an exploration of the nature of the human imagination.

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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
371

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Previews available in: Dutch Chinese English French German Modern Greek Japanese

Subjects
space ships, space vehicles, squid, psychology, giant squid, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, explosives, diving chambers, claustrophobia, psychologists, mathematicians, zoologists, astrophysicists, marine biologists, United States Navy, deep sea habitats, time travel, Life on other planets, Open Library Staff Picks, Juvenile fiction, Scientists, Fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Chang pian xiao shuo, Fiction, science fiction, general
People
Jerry, Norman Johnson, Harold Adams, Elizabeth Halpern, Theodore Fielding, Arthur Levine, Harold C. Barnes, Alice Fletcher, Tina Chan, Rose Levy, Jane Edmunds
Places
Pacific Ocean, DH-8 Habitat

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Cover of: (Sfeer)
(Sfeer): Sphere
1998, Luitingh-Sijthoff
Mass Market Paperback in Dutch - Vierde druk; movie tie-in
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Cover of: 神秘之球
神秘之球: Sphere
1998-05-04, Yi Lin chu ban she
Paperback in Chinese
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Sphere
1998, Pan Books
Paperback in English - printing (1); Movie tie-in
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Sphère: roman
1998?, R. Laffont
Library Binding in French - Movie Tie-In Edition
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Sphere
June 23, 1997, Ballantine Books
Paperback in English
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Sphere
1996?, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st U.S. Edition (8)
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Sfeer
1995, Poema Pocket
Paperback in Dutch - Tweede druk
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Die Gedanken des Bösen
1994-04, Rowohlt
in German
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Σφαίρα
1994, Harlenik
Hardcover in Modern Greek
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スフィア: 下
1993, Hayakawa
Paperback in Japanese
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Sphere
1987, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English - First edition
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First Sentence

"FOR A LONG TIME OF HORIZON HAD BEEN A MONOTOnous flat blue line separating the Pacific Ocean from the sky."

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
371
Dimensions
8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
Weight
14.1 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL9329824M
ISBN 10
0345418972
ISBN 13
9780345418975
Library Thing
17543
Amazon ID (ASIN)
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455373

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For a long time the horizon had been a monotonous flat blue line separating the Pacific Ocean from the sky.
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