About this book
Sphere (1987), 368 pages, followed Congo after a seven-year gap and preceded Jurassic Park, arriving as Michael Crichton was building toward the run of premise-driven technothrillers that would define the rest of his career. Like nearly all his novels, it's a standalone thought experiment rather than part of a continuing series.
Key facts about Sphere
Michael Crichton wrote Sphere, a book on our list. It has been out since 1987. The book has 368 pages.
We list 1 edition of this book. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9789721046283 to find the main one.
Michael Crichton has 31 books on our list. Since none belong to a series we track, all 31 stand alone. All 31 are out now. Other books by Michael Crichton on file include Eruption (2024), The Andromeda Evolution (2019), Dragon Teeth (2017) and Micro (2011).
Earlier, Congo came out in 1980. After it came Jurassic Park in 1990. Since then, our list has added 15 more books by Michael Crichton. Meanwhile, A Murder in Hollywood is the latest published Michael Crichton book on file, from 5 May 2026.
About Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton was an American author, physician, and filmmaker whose techno-thrillers redefined the genre by grounding speculative, often catastrophic scenarios in rigorous scientific research, most famously in Jurassic Park, which imagined the genetic resurrection of dinosaurs and became a global cultural phenomenon after Steven Spielberg's 1993 film adaptation. See every Michael Crichton book in order.
Editions
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