The novel, Sphere, written by Michael Crichton and published in 1987, is an engrossing story that has many twists and turns. Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, wrote, “I started the story in 1967 as a companion piece to The Andromeda Strain. But then, I didn’t know where to go with it” (1997). Sphere tells the story of multiple scientists who team up to discover the unknown that will defy their imagination, and the tale of the terrifying events that take place.
A group of scientists along with United States Navy (USN) personnel travel to a deep sea habitat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where an unknown spacecraft has lain untouched and unharmed for possibly over three hundred years. Furthermore, this group of scientists consists of psychologist Norman Johnson, mathematician Harry Adams, zoologist Beth Halpern, astrophysicist Ted Fielding, and marine …show more content…
Harold Barnes, USN Project Commander Captain, is leading this expedition into the unknown waters, where the spacecraft lies undamaged at the bottom of the sea. Consequently, this elite group of individuals has very little fear of the undisclosed craft. Nevertheless, once completing the briefing, tensions rise. Each and every person has more questions than they do answers, and they believe to sense more is occurring than what has been let on. Upon descending into the waters and entering the foreign spacecraft, the group learns that the craft is not, in fact, one of alien origin, but rather one that has travelled back in time from fifty years in the future. An unknown object, which becomes known as Sphere, begins to contact the group through the computer system with a code in which only Dr. Adams understands. After a multitude of manifestations, Johnson, Adams, and Halpern soon realize that the Sphere is responsible for the deaths of their companions, and he is now solely their enemy. “‘He’s not going to talk to you anymore,’ Harry said. ‘He’s really mad Norman.’
A group of scientists along with United States Navy (USN) personnel travel to a deep sea habitat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where an unknown spacecraft has lain untouched and unharmed for possibly over three hundred years. Furthermore, this group of scientists consists of psychologist Norman Johnson, mathematician Harry Adams, zoologist Beth Halpern, astrophysicist Ted Fielding, and marine …show more content…
Harold Barnes, USN Project Commander Captain, is leading this expedition into the unknown waters, where the spacecraft lies undamaged at the bottom of the sea. Consequently, this elite group of individuals has very little fear of the undisclosed craft. Nevertheless, once completing the briefing, tensions rise. Each and every person has more questions than they do answers, and they believe to sense more is occurring than what has been let on. Upon descending into the waters and entering the foreign spacecraft, the group learns that the craft is not, in fact, one of alien origin, but rather one that has travelled back in time from fifty years in the future. An unknown object, which becomes known as Sphere, begins to contact the group through the computer system with a code in which only Dr. Adams understands. After a multitude of manifestations, Johnson, Adams, and Halpern soon realize that the Sphere is responsible for the deaths of their companions, and he is now solely their enemy. “‘He’s not going to talk to you anymore,’ Harry said. ‘He’s really mad Norman.’