Congo

Name: Congo
Author: Michael Crichton

1980 novel by Michael Crichton

Written workliterary workQ1125771

Author: Michael Crichton
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-05-16
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Released: November 12, 1980
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1.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-crichton/congo-4/
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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Language: English
Genre: lost world fiction
, techno-thriller
, adventure fiction
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Follows: Eaters of the Dead
Followed by: Sphere

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Congo is a 1980 lost world science fiction novel by Michael Crichton, the fifth under his own name and the fifteenth overall. The novel centers on an expedition searching for diamonds and investigating the mysterious deaths of a previous expedition in the dense tropical rainforest of the Congo. Crichton calls Congo a lost world novel in the tradition founded by Henry Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, featuring the mines of that work's title.

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Country of origin: United States
Title: Congo
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-05-16
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Derivative work: Congo
Form of creative work: novel
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2026-06-15
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Has version, edition or translation: Congo
Q117780195
Congo

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