Sphere

Description

Sphere is a 1987 novel by Michael Crichton, his sixth novel under his own name and his sixteenth overall. The story follows Norman Johnson, a psychologist engaged by the United States Navy, who joins a team of scientists assembled to examine a spacecraft of unknown origin discovered on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The novel begins as a science fiction story but quickly transforms into a psychological thriller, developing into an exploration of the nature of the human imagination. --- See also: - [Sphere](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18169959W/Sphere) Also contained in: - [Congo / Sphere / Eaters of the Dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14950504W/Congo_Sphere_Eaters_of_the_Dead)

Description

In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. 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. But even more fantastic—and frightening—is what waits inside… --back cover

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Other Editions

• SpherePaperbackHarper2011-04-01
• SphereHardcoverAlfred A. Knopf1987-01-01
• Sphere.Guild1987-01-01
• The SphereHardcoverAlfred A. Knopf1987-06-01
• Sphere-Open MktMass Market PaperbackBallantine Books1988-01-12
• SphereMass Market PaperbackBallantine Books1991-12-01