Once again, Crichton draws on his scientific background, with the promise and perils of scientific speculation. Again, we scientists from all-too-human play God and their subjects, that's just too stubborn and full of life, to go with their assigned roles. Benson is a computer programmer with brain damage from a car accident, gives sometimes seizures that make it extremely violent. This makes him a prime subject for Neuropsychiatric Research UnitUniversity Hospital.
His career as a computer scientist specializing in artificial life, he founded the illusion that the machines were in competition with human life. And 'the irony of the story of Crichton careful, Benson has been picked up to a computer monitor in its electronic brain can monitor his attacks from his brain waves.
So the "Terminal Man" title, because Exhibit A for his own hallucination. His freedom from seizures must depend on a machineThink he wants to compete with us - and is embedded in his brain. This is not a stable situation, of course. And because this is a novel, Crichton, people in it and will prove onery opposites, and not go along with the program, both on purpose and appropriate.
This is particularly true for Benson, who despite major surgery, have only the brain and is under police escort (which is technically under arrest for causing the violent attack on her last seizure), the flight ofHospital. Crichton also sees the potential misuse of this technology - which includes a brief scene where a young person is implanted in the clinic to have the electrodes in the skull to stimulate directly the pleasure zone of his brain.
To emphasize, Crichton points, the computer geek hospital for children are playing with the computer programs named George and Martha. They are designed to reproduce human emotions - but just before he flies the Coop Benson, George and Martha start Berserkerwith each other in an irrational way, are not programmed. What follows is a typical mystery with the good guys try to track down a vicious killer, is a computer programmer with a head full of thin electrodes that thinks they are trying to take over him.
Just like Dean Koontz adaptation of the horror thriller was an R, the outdoors and the science fiction genre, is well suited speculative Crichton - just as Robin Cookdoes. The end is a bit 'old-fashioned hunting Benson, where comes the end, we are seeing now was inevitable - from the time of the neuropsychiatric department took him for their experiment.
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