In a large cargo hold, the team discovers a mysterious spherical object that is clearly of extraterrestrial origin. The robot is unable to open a hatch leading further inside, forcing the team to don pressure suits and explore the spacecraft. spacecraft constructed in the future and sent through time, appearing on the seabed at least 350 years before its creation. After their arrival and subsequent pressurization to the habitat's exotic-gas environment, the Navy sends a robot to enter the spacecraft first, which locates and opens a panel near the spacecraft door.Īs the robot's cameras focus on the opened panel, labels in English indicate the spacecraft is a U.S. The other scientists arrive safely at Habitat DH-8. Navy personnel, travel to a deep sea habitat at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, where an enormous spacecraft has been discovered.ĭuring the descent Levine becomes claustrophobic and is returned to the surface. Plot summaryĪ group of scientists ( psychologist Norman Johnson mathematician Harry Adams zoologist Beth Halpern astrophysicist Ted Fielding and marine biologist Arthur Levine), along with U.S. The novel begins as a science fiction story but quickly transforms into a psychological thriller, developing into an exploration of the nature of the human imagination.
The story follows Norman Johnson, a psychologist engaged by the United States Navy, who joins a team of scientists assembled to examine a spacecraft of unknown origin discovered on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It was adapted into the film Sphere in 1998. Sphere is a 1987 novel by Michael Crichton, his sixth novel under his own name and his sixteenth overall.
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