An edition of Sphere (1980)

Sphere

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An edition of Sphere (1980)

Sphere

1st Harper premium printing (1)

by and

  • ★★★★ 4.1 (14 ratings)
  • 175 Want to read
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 44 Have read

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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Harper
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English
Pages
522

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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 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

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Pacific Ocean DH-8 Habitat

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Sphere
2011 04, Harper
Paperback in English - 1st Harper premium printing (1)
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Sphère: roman
1998?, R. Laffont
Library Binding in French - Movie Tie-In Edition
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Sphere
1998, Pan Books
Paperback in English - printing (1); Movie tie-in
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(Sfeer): Sphere
1998, Luitingh-Sijthoff
Mass Market Paperback in Dutch - Vierde druk; movie tie-in
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神秘之球: Sphere
1998-05-04, Yi Lin chu ban she
Paperback in Chinese
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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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スフィア: 下
1993, Hayakawa
Paperback in Japanese
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sphere
1987
in English
Cover of: Sphere
Sphere
1987-01-01, Alfred A. Knopf
in English
Cover of: Sphere
Sphere
1987, Alfred A. Knopf
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New York, USA
Copyright Date
1987

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
522 pages
Number of pages
522

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26312599M
ISBN 10
0062044915
ISBN 13
9780062044914
OCLC/WorldCat
897563429
Alibris ID
9780062044914
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PBb0P6xnbkoC
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0062044915
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46018794

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OL46917W

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