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Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This was the first Crichton novel I read, and it got me into his other works. Most of them have the common theme of:

  1. There’s a secret science place where science happens
  2. At event causes people not normally associated with the science place to have to go to the science place
  3. The science at the science place goes horribly wrong
  4. The science place blows up in the end

  That formula doesn’t really detract from any of his books, but I did laugh when I had read enough of his catalog to see the pattern.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is a structure even more common than just one author. It needs a name like the hero’s journey has. Heck, your summary works for Alien Ressurection!

    I nominate “Science goes wrong”

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    • Sergio@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      One term is “techno-thriller”. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-thriller

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      • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That is more of an action vibe than a horror vibe though.

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    • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can’t dive into tvtropes right now, but I’ve got dollar on someone having coined a term already.

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    • kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ludd Was Right

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    • cisc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      or “science goes BOOOM”?

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The secret/nefarious science place with a thousand big red buttons?

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Have you ever read State of Fear?

    I don't really recommend it.

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    • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is that the climate change denial one?

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes.

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  • AliasVortex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not to nitpick, but it’s only been a single page and I already feel like the author has over used the word “said”, is all the dialogue this bad?

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    • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not really. There’s just a lot of characters in that scene (Muldoon, Hammond, Wu, Arnold, and Gennaro) all with dialog.

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• SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is that when the T-rex brings Dr. Ellie Sattler to a quivering orgasm?

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