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Conspiracy, Control, and Crichton

State of Fear is about more than controlling the weather. Duh, it's media ecology.

Reviewed by Read Mercer Schuchardt | posted 2/02/2005 12:00AM

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State of Fear is startling, provocative, and engaging in a way that will stimulate both your intellect and your emotions, and give you pause over just how much there is to fear, and know, in the world. That wisdom dispels fear, and that seeking understanding is still the best method for acquiring that wisdom, is perhaps his novel's ultimate message. Finding understanding by doing a Google search, however, may not be the best approach.

Read Mercer Schuchardt studied at NYU's media ecology program under Neil Postman from 1995 to 2003. He submitted his dissertation on the medieval Catholic symbol system and contemporary corporate iconography this year.

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State of Fear is available from Amazon.com and other book retailers.

Michael Crichton's official website has more information about the author and his many other novels.

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