I recently re-read Jurassic Park, and he showed a lot of knowledge about complex systems. He details the events leading up to the collapse of the park's control

I recently re-read Jurassic Park, and he showed a lot of knowledge about complex systems. He details the events leading up to the collapse of the park's control systems, and the local rationality of actions characters take make perfect sense. The chapters were structured to either end on a cliffhanger, or stop right before some kind of action was bout to be taken, so it has a pulp feel to it. But the underlying themes and attention to detail made me think he's quite intelligent and insightful, and capable of writing in a way that people want to read.