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Amazon has State of Fear: A Gripping Techno-Thriller About Science and Environmental Espionage by Michael Crichton (Kindle eBook) on sale for $1.99.

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About this book:
  • In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor.
  • In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications.
  • In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters off New Guinea.
  • And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means.
  • A deftly-crafted novel, in true Crichton style, State of Fear is an exciting, stunning tale that not only entertains and educates, but will make you think.

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Amazon has State of Fear: A Gripping Techno-Thriller About Science and Environmental Espionage by Michael Crichton (Kindle eBook) on sale for $1.99.

Thanks to Deal Hunter phoinix for sharing this deal.

About this book:
  • In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor.
  • In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications.
  • In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters off New Guinea.
  • And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means.
  • A deftly-crafted novel, in true Crichton style, State of Fear is an exciting, stunning tale that not only entertains and educates, but will make you think.

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Drak0n
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Given how none of the timed predictions in "An Inconvenient Truth" came true, what part didn't age well?
Anthony2016
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I love how climate change zealots will enjoy a book about a warewolf sleeping with a vampire, but get all hysterical about a novel where the protagonist questions climate change.

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Jun 15, 2026 02:40 PM
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gathermewoolJun 15, 2026 02:40 PM
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Is this the one where his hero/protagonist is super anti-climate science? Good book, IIRC, but the climate science stuff hasn't aged well.
Last edited by gathermewool June 15, 2026 at 07:44 AM.
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Jun 15, 2026 04:18 PM
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anotherbobleesJun 15, 2026 04:18 PM
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Reminds me of the first paw patrol movie with the weather manipulation
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Jun 18, 2026 01:53 AM
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BrightClover5037Jun 18, 2026 01:53 AM
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Quote from gathermewool :
Is this the one where his hero/protagonist is super anti-climate science? Good book, IIRC, but the climate science stuff hasn't aged well.
Essentially, yes. It's rather on the side of climate change denial, though it tries to paint itself as merely 'sceptical' of the science as though it is inconclusive or shallow, with a little dabbling in conspiracy theory style coverups of "contradictory evidence".
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Drak0nJun 20, 2026 08:22 PM
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Quote from gathermewool :
Is this the one where his hero/protagonist is super anti-climate science? Good book, IIRC, but the climate science stuff hasn't aged well.
Given how none of the timed predictions in "An Inconvenient Truth" came true, what part didn't age well?
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Jun 28, 2026 07:00 PM
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MemorableBike277Jun 28, 2026 07:00 PM
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Quote from BrightClover5037 :
Essentially, yes. It's rather on the side of climate change denial, though it tries to paint itself as merely 'sceptical' of the science as though it is inconclusive or shallow, with a little dabbling in conspiracy theory style coverups of "contradictory evidence".
The whole book deals with people using weather / earthquake manipulation and claiming it's just climate change not terrorism
Jun 28, 2026 07:05 PM
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samuraiX20Jun 28, 2026 07:05 PM
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Quote from MemorableBike277 :
The whole book deals with people using weather / earthquake manipulation and claiming it's just climate change not terrorism
Um, wow, that 100% sounds like it's a tin foil hat conspiracy theory story unless there's something more to this
Jun 28, 2026 07:09 PM
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oregonwinoJun 28, 2026 07:09 PM
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Um, wow, that 100% sounds like it's a tin foil hat conspiracy theory story unless there's something more to this
Round here we call that "fiction"
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Jun 28, 2026 07:13 PM
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slippytoadJun 28, 2026 07:13 PM
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If leftist politics comprise your entire identity, or if you have blue hair, you might not love this book. Otherwise, it is an excellent story, weaving a compelling narrative with strong characters and some great twists.
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Anthony2016Jun 28, 2026 07:50 PM
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I love how climate change zealots will enjoy a book about a warewolf sleeping with a vampire, but get all hysterical about a novel where the protagonist questions climate change.
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MemorableBike277Jun 28, 2026 11:17 PM
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Quote from samuraiX20 :
Um, wow, that 100% sounds like it's a tin foil hat conspiracy theory story unless there's something more to this
That's the plot. They buy an earthquake generator and use it along with weather modifications to try and take over the world governments
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larry1162Jun 30, 2026 06:37 AM
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Quote from Drak0n :
Given how none of the timed predictions in "An Inconvenient Truth" came true, what part didn't age well?
I remember reading this and discussing it with a couple MIT scientists in climate/energy fields who were my friends.
From memory, and this was a while ago-
-Crichton argued (thinly veiled as a character arguing) that urban heat islands were causing global temperature stations to falsely overstate global warming- completely debunked
-Completely (and incompetently) missing the cooling effect of aerosol pollution
-he said Antarctica ice was growing using data only from a part of it. (what idiot does that??). Antarctica is OVERALL losing billions of tons of ice per year.
-He was dead wrong on his prediction for the level of warming in the 21st century. Had to look the exact number up just now, but Crichton predicted 0.8 for the 21st century. We're 26 years in and already at +0.6, and it's accelerating.

Inconvenient Truth got almost all the physics and overaching truths right. One to note for the present and future, given our reliance on agriculture and livestock, is the inescapable truth that a warming atmosphere holds more water vapor. This leads to both worsening of extreme precipitation as well as droughts. Water vapor, by the way, is a potent greenhouse gas, causing a feedback loop (more trapped heat = more water vapor = more trapped heat).

You said "none" of the timed predictions came true (a popular social media talking point), by the way, when some key ones did and will, like ice-free Arctic summers, the trajectory of CO2 accumulation, and breaking the temperature records set at the time in the 2000s.

You clearly know very little about climate science. Remember this post in the coming decades, because as bad as it is right now, it's going to get much worse. As an example, an enormous amount of irrigated agriculture is grown in the Southwest, like half of our grown produce and 10-15% of all our food, as well as livestock feed. Drought, the drying Colorado River, heavily depleted aquifers are all going to get much worse. Probably by the mid to late 2030s, the US will have to abandon a lot of farmland there, and there's going to be a heavy supply shock.

It's fairly clear that at this point, 3 degrees of global warming is much more likely than 2 degrees. Recall that 1.5 of warming was considered a critical goal.

The Earth will be fine by the way over the long term. There used to be palm trees in the Arctic. However, human civilization will not be okay.

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