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Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park
The work of interest, Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. The novel is a techno thriller about an island of the coast of Costa Rica that serves as a zoological resort with dinosaurs being the main attraction. The movie counterpart of the same name has spawned four sequels all overseen by Steven Spielberg in some way or another. At the beginning of the novel Crichton write about how the world of genetics has changed and mentions a fictional small genetics lab company titled Ingen. He labels the short exposition “The InGen Incident”. The short chapter serves to partially set the tone of the novel. He does not mention any of the details of the incident but does let his audience know that something seedy and dangerous happened during the InGen incident
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