Editing The Terminal Man (section)

{{Short description|1972 novel by Michael Crichton}}
{{about|the novel|the film of the same name|The Terminal Man (film)|the biography of Mehran Karimi Nasseri|Mehran Karimi Nasseri|the concept articulated and named by [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]|Last man}}
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{{Infobox book | <!-- See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels]] or [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Books]] -->
| name          = The Terminal Man
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| translator    = 
| image         = Big-terminalman.jpg
| caption       = First edition cover
| author        = [[Michael Crichton]]
| illustrator   = 
| cover_artist  = [[Paul Bacon (designer)|Paul Bacon]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/boydehaas/5283430616/in/photostream/|title=Crichton 1972|date=December 23, 2010|via=Flickr|author=Boy de Haas}}</ref>
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| series        = 
| genre         = [[Science fiction]]
| publisher     = [[Alfred A. Knopf|Knopf]]
| release_date  = April 12, 1972
| media_type    = Print (hardcover)
| pages         = 247 
| isbn          = 0-394-44768-9
| dewey         = 813/.5/4
| congress      = PZ4.C9178 Te PS3553.R48
| oclc          = 213300
| preceded_by   = [[The Andromeda Strain]]
| followed_by   = [[The Great Train Robbery (novel)|The Great Train Robbery]]
}}

'''''The Terminal Man''''' is a novel by American writer [[Michael Crichton]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/30/archives/the-terminal-man-by-michael-crichton-247-pp-new-york-alfred-a-knopf.html|title=In Harry's temporal lobe, a deadly storm|first=Theodore|last=Sturgeon|date=April 30, 1972|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-crichton/terminal-man/|title=TERMINAL MAN &#124; Kirkus Reviews|via=www.kirkusreviews.com}}</ref> It is his second novel under his own name and his twelfth overall, and is about the dangers of [[Brainwashing|mind control]]. It was published in April 1972, and also serialized in ''[[Playboy]]'' in March, April, and May 1972. In 1974, it was made into a [[The Terminal Man (film)|film of the same name]].