The man who made a superstar out of a T-Rex and created many more gripping works ranging from science fiction to television series, Michael Crichton, succumbed to cancer at the age of 66.

To the world Crichton was a best-selling novelist and the creator of the fantastic creatures of Jurassic Park. Other than that, he was also a medical doctor, a television producer, a movie director as well as the creator of the long-running television series ER.

Crichton’s novels have sold more than 150 million copies around the world. His best-known works like The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, The Terminal Man, Prey mainly fall in the genre of science-fiction thrillers with most of them underlining the premise that has been popular since the day of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, - Scientific hubris will inexorably end in disaster. However towards the end he also began exploring offbeat but upbeat endings as in the biogenetic novel, Next.

Other than writing Crichton was also deeply interested in the public policies of the day and later in his life he took an explicit stand against archly ideological environmentalism. His 2005 book State of Fear is a fictionalization of his view that environmentalism is a belief system based on faith, not on facts. Crichton then went on to testify before a Senate committee on the politicization of climate-change policies.

Crichton fans will however best remember him as the author of several riveting novels of which they can expect the last one to be published by Harper Collins in the days to come.

First time novelist Aravind Adiga from India has won this year’s Man Booker Prize for his book, The White Tiger, a dark satirical portrait of Indian urban migration. Adiga was one of the two debut novelists on the 2008 Man Booker shortlist of six, the other being Australia’s Steve Toltz.

The White Tiger is a relentless and compelling expose of the underbelly of the Indian globalization dream. With a dark humour, it traces one man’s journey from the backwaters of Indian village life to entrepreneurial success in a cosmopolitan centre of power and privilege. Adiga’s use of mordant wit and his commentary on the social and political corruption in an emerging economic power like India makes for an unforgettable reading experience.

Thirty-three year old Adiga was born in the southern Indian city of Chennai and educated at Oxford and Columbia University. He now lives in Mumbai, the commercial capital of India. Adiga is only the third novelist whose debut work of fiction has won the 50000 pounds ($87000) Man Booker Prize, the other two being D B C Pierre in 2003 for his novel Vernon God Little and another Indian, Arundhati Roy for her novel The God of Small Things in 1997.

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