Lifestyle | Michael Crichton Two More Crichton Novels to Be Released Late author left behind pirate yarn, and part of techno-thriller By Rob Quinn Posted Apr 6, 2009 7:29 AM CDT Copied Michael Crichton poses at The Peninsula Hotel in New York in this 2004 file photo. The author died Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, aged 66. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper, file) Michael Crichton fans will have at least two posthumous releases to look forward to, the New York Times reports. The late author left behind a completed 17th-century adventure yarn called Pirate Latitudes that publisher HarperCollins plans to release this November, and the company is seeking an author to finish a technological thriller left one-third completed. "We want a high-level thriller writer, somebody who understands Michael’s work," a HarperCollins exec says. “From what I gather, there are notes and indications of which direction the novel was going, so the writer has material to work from apart from the actual material that was finished." Crichton's agent said the author, who died of cancer in November, left "many, many electronic files" behind that may well contain other novels or fragments. Read These Next GOP Sen. Tillis suggests Pete Hegseth is 'out of his depth.' Los Angeles tunnel collapses with workers inside. He's an American hero—and an undocumented immigrant. Missing teen surfer found alive on uninhabited island. Report an error