- space ships, space vehicles, squid, psychology
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. --- See also: - [Sphere](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18169959W/Sphere) Also contained in: - [Congo / Sphere / Eaters of the Dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14950504W/Congo_Sphere_Eaters_of_the_Dead)
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Grave, classical in form, intimate and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Michael Crichton
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 385
- Publisher
- Livre de Poche, Yi Lin chu ban she, Guild
- Editions
- 70
- Language
- Polish, Portuguese, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780394561103
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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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