An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them - for a price.

Fueled by a powerful curiosity - and by a need to see, feel, and hear, firsthand and close-up - Michael Crichton's journeys have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling - swimming with mud sharks in Tahiti, tracking wild animals through the jungle of Rwanda. This is a record of those travels - an exhilarating quest across the familiar and exotic frontiers of the outer world, a determined odyssey into the unfathomable, spiritual depths of the inner world.

The United States government is given a warning by the preeminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere.

The suitcase looks like a standard weekend bag. But like the man who carries it, it isn't what it seems. Lined with tinfoil to mask the smell, it is a smuggler's bag and will soon be filled to the brim with marijuana bricks. The smuggler is a Harvard student who has come to California to make his fortune. He hopes to score not just with his connection but with his new girlfriend, a Golden State beauty with an appetite for fine weed. When the deal goes south, she takes the fall, and a crooked FBI agent swipes half the stash.

Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists are mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes. Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies - all motionless except for one moving image - a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.

In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive?

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

As a raging blizzard wreaks havoc at Lincoln International Airport outside Chicago, airport and airline personnel try to cope with this unstoppable force of nature that is endangering thousands of lives. And in the air, a lone plane struggles to reach its destination. Over the course of seven pulse-pounding hours, a tense human drama plays out as a brilliant airport manager, an arrogant pilot, a tough maintenance man, and a beautiful stewardess strive to avert disaster.

名だたる文筆家が登場する、文藝春秋の文化講演会。舞台にかける情熱、物語に対する真摯、劇場に寄せる期待、観客に向ける感謝、ことばに亘る愛情、一幕に光る未来。井上ひさしが生涯を捧げた小説と演劇について熱烈に語る。名劇作家の手にかかれば、講演会すらひとつの芝居になる。(1988年11月2日 名古屋市民会館 菊池寛生誕百周年記念講演会より)
●父帰り、みな家出する。 ●作者と客の違った関係 ●見習い女中パミラ~世界初の小説~ ●桟敷群像 ●二度と会えない向こうの人よ! ●観客が走り飛び乗る終電車 文藝春秋の文化講演会は、文学談や執筆秘話に人生論も交え、含蓄と味わい深い講演があなたの生き方に豊かさと彩りを添えます。

毎日が退屈で、何をやってもワクワクしない。
テレビを見ても、友達と話していても、どこかさびしさがぬぐえない。 自分の人生はどうせこんなものなのだろう――。 そんなさえない毎日を送るあなたに足りないのは「驚く力」。

現代人が失ってきた「驚く力」を取り戻すことによって、 私たちは、自分の中に秘められた力、さらには世界の可能性に気づくことができる。 それは一瞬で人生を変えてしまうかもしれない。 自分と世界との関係を根底からとらえ直し、 さえない毎日から抜け出すヒントを与えてくれる、精神科医・名越康文の実践心理学!