Sphere - Michael Crichton

This is yet another great science fiction novel from a brilliant author, in which nothing is quite how it seems. It is as much a psychological thriller as it is a science fiction thriller. A group of scientists is assembled to investigate a spacecraft found at the bottom of the pacific ocean. Inside the spaceship, they discover a hollow sphere. After one of the party enters into it and return with a raging headache, strange and frightening incidents start to occur... As always the book contains lots of genuine science, including quoting the Drake equation for predicting how many planets out there may have actually developed an intelligent ...  Read the complete review

This review is actually about the book, not the film. If you have the time read the book its much better than the film. Sphere is about a futuristic sphere that gives a group of scientists a special and unusual power- the power of being able to turn fantasy into reality. The group of scientists are kept in total wonder as to why they were being sent to the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The scientists consisted of Norman Johnson, a psychologist; Beth Halpern, a zoologist and biochemist; Harry Adams, a mathematician; and Ted Fielding, an astrophysicist. Each scientist played an important role- Norman was to watch the team because no one had ever seen an alien ...  Read the complete review