State of Fear
- 685
- Pages
- about 13 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 1 week on the list, peaked at #10
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Our view
“State of Fear” is two books in one: a globe-trotting adventure thriller and a footnoted argument about global warming. Eco-terrorists with a murderous plan supply the chase, which some readers enjoy more than the debate, though the action comes so thick that some feel numbed by it. Others relish the character who takes apart the case for man-made warming. Anyone opening it gets a polemic as well as a thriller.
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About the book
State of Fear is a 2004 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton, his fourteenth under his own name and twenty-fourth overall, in which eco-terrorists plot mass murder to publicize the danger of global warming.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.8 across 221 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 60% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Thriller average of 7.6. That is how 7.2 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 5.0 | 10 | 5% |
| Hardcover | 6.9 | 211 | 96% |
Frequently asked
How long is State of Fear?
It has 685 pages — longer than 91% of the ranked books in Thriller.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
If you liked this
Same shelf — Thriller — with scores between 6.9 and 7.4, closest to this book.
