Excerpt from the novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

     Arnold stared in shock.
     One after another, the monitors went black, and then the room lights went out, plunging the control room into darkness and confusion. Everyone started yelling at once. Muldoon opened the blinds and let light in, and Wu brought over the printout.
     “Look at this,” Wu said.

Time     Event                        System Status
---------------------------------------------------------------
5:12:44  Safety 1 Off                Operative
5:12:45  Safety 2 Off                Operative
5:12:46  Safety 3 Off                Operative
5:12:51  Shutdown Command            Shutdown
5:13:48  Startup Command             Shutdown
5:13:55  Safety 1 On                 Shutdown
5:13:57  Safety 2 On                 Shutdown
5:13:59  Safety 3 On                 Shutdown
5:14:08  Startup Command             Startup - Aux Power
5:14:18  Monitor-Main                Operative - Aux Power
5:14:19  Security-Main               Operative - Aux Power
5:14:22  Command-Main                Operative - Aux Power
5:14:24  Laboratory-Main             Operative - Aux Power
5:14:29  TeleCom-VBB                 Operative - Aux Power
5:14:32  Schematic-Main              Operative - Aux Power
5:14:37  View                        Operative - Aux Power
5:14:44  Control Status Chk          Operative - Aux Power
5:14:57  Warning: Fence Status [NB]  Operative - Aux Power
9:11:37  Warning: Aux Fuel (20%)     Operative - Aux Power
9:33:19  Warning: Aux Fuel (10%)     Operative - Aux Power
9:53:19  Warning: Aux Fuel (1%)      Operative - Aux Power
9:53:39  Warning: Aux Fuel (0%)      Shutdown  

     Wu said, “You shut down at five-thirteen this morning, and when you started back up, you started with auxiliary power.”
     “Jesus,” Arnold said. Apparently, main power had not been on since shutdown. When he powered back up, only the auxiliary power came on. Arnold was thinking that as strange, when he suddenly realized that that was normal. That was what was supposed to happen. It made perfect sense: the auxiliary generator fired up first, and it was used to turn on the main generator, because it took a heavy charge to start the main power generator. That was the way the system was designed.
     But Arnold had never before had occasion to turn the main power off. And when the lights and screens came back on in the control room, it never occurred to him that main power hadn’t also been restored.
     But it hadn’t, and all during the time since then, while they were looking for the rex, and doing one thing and another, the park had been running on auxiliary power. And that wasn’t a good idea. In fact, the implications were just beginning to hit him—
     “What does this line mean?” Muldoon said, pointing to the list.

5:14:57  Warning: Fence Status [NB]  Operative - Aux Power  [AV09]

     “It means a system status warning was sent to the monitors in the control room,” Arnold said. “Concerning the fences.”
     “Did you see that warning?”
     Arnold shook his head. “No. I must have been talking to you in the field. Anyway, no, I didn’t see it.”
     “What does it mean, ‘Warning: Fence Status’?”
     “Well, I didn’t know it at the time, but we were running on backup power,” Arnold said. “And backup doesn’t generate enough amperage to power the electrified fences, so they were automatically kept off.”
     Muldoon scowled. “The electrified fences were off?”
     “Yes.”
     “All of them? Since five this morning? For the last five hours?”
     “Yes.”
     “Including the velociraptor fences?”
     Arnold sighed. “Yes.”
     “Jesus Christ,” Muldoon said. “Five hours. Those animals could be out.”
     And then, from somewhere in the distance, they heard a scream. Muldoon began to talk very fast. He went around the room, handing out the portable radios.
     “Mr. Arnold is going to the maintenance shed to turn on main power. Dr. Wu, stay in the control room. You’re the only other one who can work the computers. Mr. Hammond, go back to the lodge. Don’t argue with me. Go now. Lock the gates, and stay behind them until you hear from me. I’ll help Arnold deal with the raptors.” He turned to Genarro. “Like to live dangerously again?”
     “Not really,” Gennaro said. He was very pale.
     “Fine. Then go with the others to the lodge.” Muldoon turned away. “That’s it, everybody. Now move.”
     Hammond whined, “But what are you going to do to my animals?”
     “That’s not really the question, Mr. Hammond,” Muldoon said. “The question is, what are they going to do to us?”
     He went through the door, and hurried down the hall toward his office. Gennaro fell into step alongside him. “Change your mind?” Muldoon growled.
     “You’ll need help,” Gennaro said.
     “I might.” Muldoon went into the room marked ANIMAL SUPERVISOR, picked up the gray shoulder launcher, and unlocked a panel in the wall behind the desk. There were six cylinders and six canisters.
     “The thing about these damn dinos,” Muldoon said, “is that they have distributed nervous systems. They don’t die fast, even with a direct hit to the brain. And they’re built solidly; thick ribs make a shot to the heart dicey, and they’re difficult to cripple in the legs or hindquarters. Slow bleeders, slow to die.” He was opening the cylinders one after another and dropping in the canisters. He tossed a thick webbed belt to Gennaro. “Put that on.”
     Genarro tightened the belt, and Muldoon passed him the shells. “About all we can hope to do is blow them apart. Unfortunately we’ve only got six shells here. There’s eight raptors in that fenced compound. Let’s go. Stay close. You have the shells.”
     Muldoon went out and ran along the hallway, looking down over the balcony to the path leading toward the maintenance shed. Gennaro was puffing alongside him. They got to the ground floor and went out through the glass doors, and Muldoon stopped.
     Arnold was standing with his back to the maintenance shed. Three raptors approached him. Arnold had picked up a stick, and was waving it at them, shouting. The raptors fanned out as they came closer, one staying in the center, the other two moving to each side. Coordinated. Smooth. Gennaro shivered.
     Pack behavior.
     Muldoon was already crouching, setting the launcher on his shoulder. “Load,” he said. Gennaro slipped the shell in the back of the launcher. There was an electric sizzle. Nothing happened. “Christ, you’ve got it in backward,” Muldoon said, tilting the barrel so the shell fell into Gennaro’s hands. Gennaro loaded it again. The raptors were snarling at Arnold when the animal on the left simply exploded, the upper part of the torso flying into the air, blood spattering like a burst tomato on the walls of the building. The lower torso collapsed on the ground, the legs kicking in the air, the tail flopping.
     “That’ll wake ’em up,” Muldoon said.
     Arnold ran for the door of the maintenance shed. The velociraptors turned, and started toward Muldoon and Gennaro. They fanned out as they came closer. In the distance, somewhere near the lodge, he heard screams.
     Gennaro said, “This could be a disaster.”
     “Load,” Muldoon said.

Excerpt from the novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

     Malcolm groaned. “Isn’t it time for more morphine yet?”
     “Not yet,” Ellie said.
     Malcolm sighed. “How much water have we got here?”
     “I don’t know. There’s plenty of running water from the tap—”
     “No, I mean, how much stored? Any?”
     Ellie shrugged. “None.”
     “Go into the rooms on this floor,” Malcolm said, “and fill the bathtubs with water.”
     Ellie frowned.
     “Also,” Malcolm said, “have we got any walkie-talkies? Flashlights? Matches? Sterno stoves? Things like that?”
     “I’ll look around. You planning for an earthquake?”
     “Something like that,”Malcolm said. “Malcolm Effect implies catastrophic changes.”
     “But Arnold says all the systems are working perfectly.”
     “That’s when it happens,” Malcolm said.
     “Ellie said, “You don’t think much of Arnold, do you?”
     “He’s all right. He’s an engineer. Wu’s the same. They’re both technicians. They don’t have intelligence. They have what I call ‘thintelligence.’ They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it ‘being focused.’ They don’t see the surround. They don’t see the consequences. That’s how you get an island like this. From thintelligent thinking. Because you cannot make an animal and not expect it to act alive. To be unpredictable. To escape. But they don’t see that.”
     “Don’t you think it’s just human nature?” Ellie said.
     “God, no,” Malcolm said. “That’s like saying scrambled eggs and bacon for breakfast is human nature. It’s nothing of the sort. It’s uniquely Western training, and much of the rest of the world is nauseated by the thought of it.” He winced in pain. “The morphine’s making me philosophical.”
     “You want some water?”
     “No. I’ll tell you the problem with engineers and scientists. Scientists have an elaborate line of bullshit about how they are seeking to know the truth about nature. Which is true, but that’s not what drives them. Nobody is driven by abstractions like ‘seeking truth.’
     “Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether thy can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something. They conveniently define such considerations as pointless. If they don’t do it, someone else will. Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That’s the game in science. Even pure scientific discovery is an aggressive, penatrative act. It takes big equipment, and it literally changes the world afterward. Particle accelerators scar the land, and leave radioactive byproducts. Astronauts leave trash on the moon. There is always some proof that scientists were there, making their discoveries. Discovery is always a rape of the natural world. Always.
     The scientists want it that way. They have to stick their instruments in. They have to leave their mark. They can’t just watch. They can’t just appreciate. They can’t just fit into the natural order. They have to make something unnatural happen. That is the scientist’s job, and now we have whole societies that try to be scientific.” He sighed, and sank back.
     Ellie said, “Don’t you think you’re overstating—”
     “What does one of your excavations look like a year later.”
     “Pretty bad,” she admitted.
     “You don’t replant, you don’t restore the land after you dig?”
     “No.”
     “Why not?”
     She shrugged. “There’s no money, I guess….”
     “There’s only enough money to dig, but not to repair?”
     “Well, we’re just working in the bandlands….”
     “Just the badlands,” Malcolm said, shaking his head. “Just trash. Just byproducts. Just side effects… I’m trying to tell you that scientists want it this way. They want byproducts and trash and scars and side effects. It’s a way of reassuring themselves. It’s built into the fabric of science, and it’s increasingly a disaster.”
     “Then what’s the answer?”
     “Get rid of the thintelligent ones. Take them out of power.”
     “But then we’d lose all the advances—”
     “What advances?” Malcolm said irritably. “The number of hours women devote to housework has not changed since 1930, despite all the advances. All the vacuum cleaners, washer-dryers, trash compactors, garbage disposals, wash-and-wear fabrics… Why does it still take as long to clean the house as it did in 1930?”
     Ellie said nothing.
     “Because there haven’t been any advances,” Malcolm said. “Not really. Thirty thousand years ago, when men were doing cave paintings a Lascaux, they worked twenty hours a week to provide themselves with food and shelter and clothing. The rest of the time, they could play, or sleep, or do whatever they wanted. And they lived in a natural world, with clean air, clean water, beautiful trees and sunsets. Think about it. Twenty hours a week. Thirty thousand years ago.”
     Ellie said, “You want to turn back the clock?”
     “No,” Malcolm said. “I want people to wake up. We’ve had four hundred years of modern science, and we ought to know by now what it’s good for, and what it’s not good for. It’s time for a change.”
     “Before we destroy the planet?” she said.
     He sighed, and closed his eyes. “Oh dear,” he said. “That’s the last thing I would worry about.”

Excerpt from the novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

     “God damn it, Arnold, you son of a bitch! God damn it, get this park back on track! Now! Get my grandkids back here! Now!” John Hammond stood in the control room, screaming and stamping his little feet. He had been carrying on this way for the last two minutes, while Henry Wu stood in the corner, looking stunned.
     “Well, Mr. Hammond,” Arnold said, “Muldoon’s on his way out right now, to do exactly that.” Arnold turned away, and lit another cigarette. Hammond was like every other management guy Arnold had ever seen. Whether it was Disney or the Navy, management guys always behaved the same. They never understood the technical issues; and they thought that screaming was the way to make things happen. And maybe it was, if you were shouting at your secretaries to get you a limousine.
     But screaming didn’t make any difference at all to the problems that Arnold now faced. The computer didn’t care if it was screamed at. The power network didn’t care if it was screamed at. Technical systems were completely indifferent to all this explosive human emotion. If anything, screaming was counterproductive, because Arnold now faced the virtual certainty that Nedry wasn’t coming back, which meant that Arnold himself had to go into the computer code and try and figure out what had gone wrong. It was going to be a painstaking job; he’d need to be calm and careful.
     “Why don’t you go downstairs to the cafeteria,” Arnold said, “and get a cup of coffee? We’ll call you when we have more news.
     “I don’t want a Malcolm Effect here,” Hammond said.
     “Don’t worry about a Malcolm Effect,” Arnold said. “Will you let me go to work?”
     “God damn you,” Hammond said.
     “I’ll call you, sir, when I have news from Muldoon,” Arnold said.
     He pushed buttons on his console, and saw the familiar control screens change.

*/Jurassic Park Main Modules/
*/
*/ Call Libs
Include: biostat.sys
Include: sysrom.vst
Include: net.sys
Include: pwr.mdl
*/
*/Initialize
SetMain[42]2002/9A{total CoreSysop %4 [vig. 7*tty]}
if ValidMeter(mH) (**mH).MeterVis return
Term Call 909 c.lev {void MeterVis $303} Random(3#*MaxFid)
on SetSystem(!Dn) set shp_val.obj to lim(Val{d}SumVal
     if SetMeter(mH) (**mH).ValdidMeter(Vdd) return
     on_SetSystem(!Telcom) set mxcpl.obj to lim(Val{pd})NextVal

     Arnold was no longer operating the computer. He had now gone behind the scenes to look at the code—the line-by-line instructions that told the computer how to behave. Arnold was unhappily aware that thet complete Jurassic Park program contained more than half a million lines of code, most of it undocumented, without explanation.
     Wu came forward. “What are you doing, John?”
     “Checking the code.”
     “By inspection? That’ll take forever.”
     “Tell me,” Arnold said. “Tell me.”

Excerpt from the novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

     “More coffee?” Hammond asked politely.
     “No, thank you,” Henry Wu said, leaning back in his chair. “I couldn’t eat anything more.” They were sitting in the dining room of Hammond’s bungalow, in a secluded corner of the park not far from the labs. Wu had to admit that the bungalow Hammond had build for himself was elegant, with sparse, almost Japanese lines. And the dinner had been excellent, considering the dining room wasn’t fully staffed yet.
     But there was something about Hammond that Wu found troubling. The old man was different in some way… subtly different. All during dinner, Wu had tried to decide what it was. In part, a tendency to ramble, to repeat himself, to retell old stories. In part, it was an emotional liability, flaring anger one moment, maudlin sentimentality the next. But all that could be understood as a natural concomitant of age. John Hammond was, after all, almost seventy-seven.
     But there was something else. A stubborn evasiveness. An insistence on having his way. And, in the end, a complete refusal to deal with the situation that now faced the park.
     Wu had been stunned by the evidence (he did not yet allow himself to believe the case was proved) that the dinosaurs were breeding. After Grant had asked about amphibian DNA, Wu had intended to go directly to his laboratory and check the computer records of the various DNA assemblies. Because, if the dinosaurs were in fact breeding, then everything about Jurassic Park was called into question—their genetic development methods, their genetic control methods, everything. Even the lysine dependency might be suspect. And if these animals could truly breed, and could also survive in the wild….
     Henry Wu wanted to check the data at once. But Hammond had stubbornly insisted Wu accompany him at dinner.
     “Now then, Henry, you must save room for ice cream,” Hammond said, pushing back from the table. “María makes the most wonderful ginger ice cream.”
     “All right.” Wu looked at the beautiful, silent serving girl. His eyes followed her out of the room, and then he glanced up at the single video monitor mounted in the wall. The monitor was dark. “Your monitor’s out,” Wu said.
     “Is it?” Hammond glanced over. “Must be the storm.” He reached behind him for the telephone. “I’ll just check with John in control.”
     Wu could hear the static crackle on the telephone line. Hammond shrugged, and set the receiver back in its cradle. “Lines must be down,” he said. “Or maybe Nedry’s still doing data transmission. He has quite a few bugs to fix this weekend. Nedry’s a genius in his way, but we had to press him quite hard, toward the end, to make sure he got things right.”
     “Perhaps I should go to the control room and check,” Wu said.
     “No, no,” Hammond said. “There’s no reason. If there were any problem, we’d hear about it. Ah.”
     María came back into the room, with two plates of ice cream.
     “You must have just a little, Henry,” Hammond said. “It’s made with fresh ginger, from the eastern part of the island. It’s an old man’s vice, ice cream. But still….”
     Dutifully, Wu dipped his spoon. Outside, lightning flashed, and there was the sharp crack of thunder. “That was close,” Wu said. “I hope the storm isn’t frightening the children.”
     “I shouldn’t think so,” Hammond said. He tasted the ice cream. “but I can’t help but hold some fears about this park, Henry.”
     Inwardly, Wu felt releieved. Perhaps the old man was going to face the facts, after all. “What kind of fears?”
     “You know, Jurassic Park’s really made for children. The children of the world love dinosaurs, and the children are going to delight—just delight—in this place. Their little faces will shine with the joy of finally seeing these wonderful animals. But I am afraid… I may not live to see it, Henry. I may not live to see the joy on their faces.”
     “I think there are other problems, too,” Wu said, frowning.
     “But none so pressing on my mind as this,” Hammond said, “that I may not live to see their shining, delighted faces. This is our triumph, this park. We have done what we set out to do. And, you remember, our original intent was to use the newly emerging technology of genetic engineering to make money. A lot of money.”
     Wu knew Hammond was about to launch into one of his old speeches. He held up his hand. “I’m familiar with this, John—”
     “If you were going to start a bioengineering company, Henry, what would you do? Would you make products to help mankind, to fight illness and disease? Dear me, no. That’s a terrible idea. A very poor use of new technology.”
     Hammond shook his head sadly. “Yet, you’ll remember,” he said, “the original genetic engineering companies, like Genentech and Cetus, were all started to make pharmaceuticals. New drugs for mankind. Noble, noble purpose. Unfortunately, drugs face all kinds of barriers. FDA testing alone takes five to eight years—if you’re lucky. Even worse, there are forces at work in the marketplace. Suppose you make a miracle drug for cancer or heart disease—as Genentech did. Suppose you now want to charge a thousand dollars or two thousand dollars a dose. You might imagine that is your privilege. After all, you invented the drug, you paid to develop and test it; you should be able to charge whatever you wish. But do you really think that the government will let you do that? No, Henry, they will not. Sick people aren’t going to pay a thousand dollars a dose for needed medication—they won’t be grateful, they’ll be outraged. Blue Cross isn’t going to pay it. They’ll scream highway robbery. So something will happen. Your patent application will be denied. Your permits will be delayed. Something will force you to see reason—and to sell your drug at a lower cost. From a business standpoint, that makes helping mankind a very risky business. Personally, I would never help mankind.”
     Wu had heard the argument before. And he knew Hammond was right; some new bioengineered pharmaceuticals had indeed suffered inexplicable delays and patent problems.
     “Now,” Hammond said, “think how different it is when you’re making entertainment. Nobody needs entertainment. That’s not a matter for government intervention. If I charge five thousand dollars a day for my park, who is going to stop me? After all, nobody needs to come here. And, far from being highway robbery, a costly price tag actually increases the appeal of the park. A visit becomes a status symbol, and all Americans love that. So do the Japanese, and of course they have far more money.”
     Hammond finished his ice cream, and María silently took the dish away. “She’s not from here, you know,” he said. “She’s Haitian. Her mother is French. But in any case, Henry, you will recall that the original purpose behind pointing my company in this direction in the first place—was to have freedom from government intervention, anywhere in the world.”
     “Speaking of the rest of the world….”
     Hammond smiled. “We have already leased a large tract in the Azores, for Jurassic Park Europe. And you know we long ago obtained an island near Guam, for Jurassic Park Japan. Construction on the next two Jurassic Parks will begin early next year. They will all be open within four years. At that time, direct revenues will exceed ten billion dollars a year, and merchandising, television, and ancillary rights should double that. I see no reason to bother with children’s pets, which I’m told Lew Dodgson thinks we’re planning to make.”
     “Twenty billion dollars a year,” Wu said softly, shaking his head.
     “That’s speaking conservatively,” Hammond said. He smiled. “There’s no reason to speculate wildly. More ice cream, Henry?”