Michael Crichton books

Order the books Michael Crichton wrote by the year each was first published. You place all 32 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

Michael Crichton books
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How the Michael Crichton books timeline works

Every card is a Michael Crichton book, just the title, and you order them by year of first publication. A single book is down at the start, year showing. You place each new card in a gap before, between or after the books already down. A correct read uncovers the year; a wrong guess sends the book to its real spot and takes one of three lives.

Before the techno-thrillers made him famous, Crichton wrote a string of paperback thrillers under pen names while he was in medical school, and they crowd the early stretch. The deck also includes nonfiction and posthumous novels. The famous blockbusters are spread out, so the pen-name books and lesser-known titles are where you'll lose lives.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 32 cards you might be dealt, with 4 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Odds On
  • Scratch One
  • A Case of Need
  • Easy Go
  • The Andromeda Strain
  • Zero Cool
  • The Venom Business
  • Drug of Choice
  • Grave Descend
  • Dealing: or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
  • The Terminal Man
  • Binary
  • The Great Train Robbery
  • Eaters of the Dead
  • Congo
  • Amazon
  • Sphere
  • Travels
  • Jurassic Park
  • Rising Sun
  • Disclosure
  • Airframe
  • Timeline
  • Prey
  • State of Fear
  • Next
  • Pirate Latitudes
  • Micro

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