Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 34. Chapters: The Andromeda Strain, State of Fear, Next, Rising Sun, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Prey, Pirate Latitudes, The Great Train Robbery, Sphere, Airframe, Timeline, The Terminal Man, Congo, Disclosure, Eaters of the Dead, A Case of Need, Binary, The Venom Business, Easy Go, Scratch One, Grave Descend, Zero Cool, Odds On, Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues, Drug of Choice. Excerpt: State of Fear is a 2004 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton concerning eco-terrorists who attempt mass murder to support their views. The novel had an initial print run of 1.5 million copies and reached the #1 bestseller position at Amazon.com and #2 on the New York Times Best Seller list for one week in January 2005. The book contains many graphs and footnotes, two appendices, and a twenty-page bibliography. Climate scientists dispute Crichtons science as being error-filled and distorted. State of Fear is, like many of Crichtons works, a fictional work that uses science and speculation for the storyline. The debate over global warming serves as the backdrop for the book. Crichton supplies a personal afterword and two appendices that link the fictional part of the book with real examples of his thesis. The main villains in the plot are environmentalists. Crichton does place blame on "industry" in both the plot line and the appendices. Various assertions appear in the book, for example: Crichton argues for removing politics from science and uses global warming and real-life historical examples in the appendices to make this argument. In a 2003 speech at the California Institute of Technology he expressed his concern about what he considered the "emerging crisis in the whole enterprise of science-namely the increasingly uneasy relationship between hard science and public...