“Crichton likes to tell the story of running into a group of biotechnologist friends in Hawaii after Jurassic Park was published by Knopf in early 1990. In this excerpt, he relates a story about whether or not dinosaurs could really be cloned: Michael Crichton was profiled in a September 1993 issue of Southwest Airlines Spirit magazine by Mark Seal. They said, “I want this to be a story for me.” Meaning for an adult. I wrote another draft, but the result remained the same.įinally one of the readers said that they were irritated with the story because they wanted it to be from an adult point of view, not a kid point of view. Whatever I had done in the latest draft, it hadn’t helped. I got angry reactions such as, “Why would you write a book like this?” But when I asked them to explain exactly why they hated it, they couldn’t put their finger on anything in particular. They were all in agreement: they hated Jurassic Park. Over the years, I’ve come to rely on five or six people who read my drafts generally they have a range of responses.
I then sent the book to the usual people who read my first drafts. Finally I decided on a theme park setting, and wrote a novel from the point of view of a young boy who was present when the dinosaurs escaped. I worked on it for several years since, trying to make it more credible. I wrote a screenplay about cloning a pterodactyl from fossil DNA in 1983, but the story wasn’t convincing.
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