Ian Malcolm returns as the main protagonist in Michael Crichton’s novel The Lost World.
Malcolm is the mathematician who survives the events of Jurassic Park, despite being presumed dead by many characters. In The Lost World, he is recruited to investigate a second dinosaur site connected to InGen’s operations. His expertise in chaos theory remains central to the novel’s ideas about unpredictable systems.
The book was published in 1995 and was Crichton’s sequel to Jurassic Park. The film adaptation, released in 1997, also made Malcolm its central character and brought Jeff Goldblum back to the role.
Alan Grant is the protagonist of the original novel and the first film, while John Hammond is the park’s founder. Henry Wu is a geneticist associated with the dinosaur program.