What's fascinating is how this theme dates his work in a good way. The 90s were the peak of chaos theory and complexity science in the popular imagination (think 'Jurassic Park', 'The Simpsons' with the butterfly effect, that 'Chaos' book by Gleick). Crichton was perfectly tuned into that cultural moment. Reading his books from that era now is like a time capsule of a specific kind of scientific optimism-turned-anxiety.
I'm just imagining Ian Malcolm's sigh of exasperation if he read 'State of Fear'. He'd probably say, 'See? I told you. You're trying to model the climate, a system with more variables than there are atoms in this room, and you're surprised when your predictions are garbage?' It's the same character archetype, just applied to a different controversy.
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