Early novels and screenplays (1969–1974) thumb|left|upright|Crichton critiqued Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) in The New Republic.
Early novels and screenplays (,1969–1974) thumb|left|upright|Crichton critiqued ?Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five (.1969) in The New Republ?ic.