“Micro” by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston a book review

Micro by Michael Crichton

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Authors Michael Crichton and Richard Preston have made an interesting take on the “shrinking man’ or “micro human” story based on some somewhat shaky physics and quantum leaps of faith to get their whole bodied humans including clothes, and paraphernalia all down to miniature size and still functioning. That said, the story is as usual with this author and genre a rousing good tale of adventure in micro-land with one always wondering who is going to make it out alive as not all out mini friends go down and then come back up into the full-sized world for a variety of reasons. Hawaii makes a good backdrop for this sort of an adventure, and I enjoyed the variety of ways in which the poisons or stimulants or products of Mother Nature could be used counteract the bad effects of things like the wasp paralysis or used to fight off the monstrosity of spider attacks. Read it and enjoy. Don’t get your hopes up that you will get to try it out in this lifetime. Probably better to save up your money for that trip to the full-sized moon.



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