![]() “Eaters of the Dead” experiments with the opposite technique of, evoking terror through exact, reportorial de‐tail. ![]() Grendel is a deadly, but undefined personifi‐cation of evil, a half‐human creature with an indeterminate number of limbs, who never speaks. The tale is strongly reminiscent of “Beowulf": Crichton even names his doomed hero Buliwyf.Īcademics sometimes forget that “Beowulf” is, above all, a good monster story. Taking as his point or departure an Ob‐scure 10th‐century Arab trave‐logue by 1bn Fadlan, Crichton's new “sword and sorcery” novel chronicles Ibn's kidnapping by the Vikings and his role in helping them combat a primi‐tive race of cannibals who are devouring the inhabitants of King Rothgar's meade hall. ![]() Wells for “The Androme‐da Strain” and from Mary Shel‐ley for “The Terminal Man,” Michael Crichton has now at‐tempted to do the same with medieval sources. ![]()
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