TY - BOOK AU - Crichton, Michael TI - Sphere SN - 9780345353146 U1 - 813.54 CRI PY - 1988/// CY - New York: PB - Ballantine Books KW - English Literature KW - American Literature KW - Fiction KW - Science Fiction KW - Novel KW - Psychological Thriller N2 - From the author of?Jurassic Park,?Timeline, and?Congo?comes a psychological thriller about a group of scientists who investigate a spaceship discovered on the ocean floor.?In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface, a huge vessel is unearthed. Rushed to the scene is a team of American scientists who descend together into the depths to investigate the astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship, but apparently it is undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old, containing a terrifying and destructive force that must be controlled at all costs.? ER -