“The Lost World” turns the big 3-0 🦖 Published on this day in 1995, Michael Crichton’s “The Lost World” was his only sequel — a return to the universe that changed science fiction forever. Two years later, Steven Spielberg brought the story to the big screen with “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” (1997), making Crichton’s vision a global blockbuster and cementing the franchise in pop culture history. As Crichton himself wrote: “Why are people so interested in dinosaurs? Why are we so fascinated b