In Jurassic Park, a group of scientists working for a greedy genetic company tries to produce animals from the ancient past, dinosaurs. The company, InGen, wants to build a park, a park like no other in the world, and wants to keep it secret until the opening of the park. The park is named "Jurassic Park". The scientists collect mosquitos trapped in amber. They reason that since there were mosquitos in the age of dinosaurs, the mosquitos must have sucked the blood of dinosaurs. If the mosquitos were trapped in amber after that the dinosaur DNA inside the blood will be very well preserved. They make only female dinosaurs, so that no unwanted breeding will occur.
Everything is in a hurry, since InGen wants the park opened as soon as possible. They rely very much on computers, from filling up missing DNA fragments to counting the number of living dinosaurs currently in the park. That was a serious error. Everything starts going wrong when people start seeing strange reptiles in Costa Rica. Eventually, a group of visitors arrive in Jurassic Park to get a look at those dinosaurs they are hearing about. Among them is Ian Malcolm, a mathematician who argues that the Jurassic Park system will fail, in one way or another. He was right. Another genetic company had induced an employee at Jurassic Park to steal some dinosaur embryos. The employee, being the chief programmer, uses his hidden program to inactivate all the electrical system in the park, just to get the embryos. The electrical fence system is also inactivated. Malcolm also points out a serious error in the dinosaur-counting system. The system was made to find missing animals, not excess animals, since nobody even dreamed that there would be more animals. The dinosaurs were, in fact, breeding. Everything goes at a fast tempo after that. Many people, including Malcolm, dies, but some survives.
This book pulls the readers into an imaginary world in which dinosaurs come alive. The descriptions are so expressive that the readers can almost see the dinosaurs roaring, attacking, and eating before their eyes. The readers are constantly kept in suspense. The author, Michael Crichton, combines science and fiction in a way few writers can emulate. It is fascinating and wonderful, yet frighteningly real. While reading, the readers will find that they are partly imagining that the story might actually become true. They are compelled to cry out in fear when some velociraptors attack a person, and to exclaim in joy when the people finally get the fences under control. The readers of this book will not be satisfied until they have read the last word.
This book shows that even humans can't control nature. In Ian Malcolm's Chaos Theory, it says that a single, small event, like the flapping of a butterfly's wings, can lead to a major event, like a hurricane. It says that everything, including the most detailed and safe systems, has an "inherent instability". Apperently, it occured in Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park also shows the greediness and cunningness of people, as well as their courage and intellect. It is a real look inside people's minds. These parts of reality combined in this book make it a masterpiece of science fiction.