SOURCE: "Sometime After Dinosaurs, God Created Woman," in The Spectator, Vol. 272, No. 8637, January 22, 1994, pp. 25, 27.

Burchill is an English novelist, screenwriter, and nonfiction writer. In the following unfavorable review of Disclosure, she contends that Crichton's writing is poor, that the story maligns women, and that it fails to deal with the issue of sexual harassment seriously.

Novelization—of a film, or of a popular television serial—has always been a moderately quick way to earn a moderately good sum of money. (Often, people educated far beyond their intelligence are drawn to this way of life; I once owned an EastEnders novelisation prefaced by three quotes from Nietzsche.) But Michael Crichton—author of Jurassic Park and Rising Sun, as well as a bunch of earlier books no one's ever heard of (Eaters of the Dead, anyone?)—has happened upon a brilliantly clever way of making huge amounts of money out...