Sphere
1987 • 371 pages

Ratings218

Average rating3.7

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A group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the ocean floor in the middle of the South Pacific. What they find defines their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently, undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old….
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See also:
- [Sphere](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18169959W/Sphere)

Also contained in:

- [Congo / Sphere / Eaters of the Dead][2]


[1]: http://www.michaelcrichton.com/sphere/
[2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14950504W/Congo_Sphere_Eaters_of_the_Dead

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This is way better than timeline and intersting concept, a unique way of manifesting the E.T.

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So very very very much better than the movie.

September 16, 2007

I read this one in jr high. Great beach read.

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