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An edition of Sphere (1980)

Sphere

1st U.S. ed. (75)

by and

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

In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge spaceship is discovered resting on the ocean floor.

Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend together into the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery.

What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. 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...
--back cover

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Ballantine Books
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English
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371

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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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New York, USA

Edition Notes

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1987.

Copyright Date
1987

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
Fic
Library of Congress
PS3553.R48 S6 1988

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
371 p. ;
Number of pages
371

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24950583M
ISBN 10
0345353145
ISBN 13
9780345353146
OCLC/WorldCat
18336666
Goodreads
50540564

Work Description

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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