title: Spherethink
author: Robert C. Ceniceros
description: Robert Ceniceros was born in Los Angeles in 1929. Following service in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War, he attended the University of California Dental School, raised eight children, and still practices dentistry in San Francisco. His major literary interest is language and its power to create beliefs.
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  # Sphere
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Sphere
  
  
  SPHERE
  
  
  
  
  
  A Novel by
  
  
  Michael Crichton
  
  
  
  
  
  BALLANTINE BOOKS • NEW YORK
  
  
  
  
  
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  of this book without a front cover may be unauthorized. If this book is
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  Copyright ©1987 by Michael Crichton
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
  Conventions. Published in the United States of America by Ballantine Books, a
  division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by
  Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
  
  
  
  
  
  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 86-46321
  
  
  
  
  
  http://www.randomhouse.com
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN 0-345-35314-5
  
  
  
  
  
  This edition published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
  
  
  
  
  
  Manufactured in the United States of America
  
  
  
  
  
  First International Edition: February 1988 First U.S. Edition: A