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| Original Title: | The Andromeda Strain |
| ISBN: | 0060541814 (ISBN13: 9780060541811) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Andromeda #1 |
| Setting: | Arizona(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Seiun Award 星雲賞 for Best Foreign Novel (1971) |
Michael Crichton
Paperback | Pages: 327 pages Rating: 3.89 | 212179 Users | 3643 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda #1) |
| Author | : | Michael Crichton |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 327 pages |
| Published | : | October 28th 2003 by Avon Books (first published September 1st 1969) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Thriller |
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The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to collect organisms and dust for study. One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont, a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town's inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.Rating Of Books The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda #1)
Ratings: 3.89 From 212179 Users | 3643 ReviewsCommentary Of Books The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda #1)
The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton's contagion procedural, has more in common with Sjowall & Wahloo's Roseanna than anything created by anybody widely associated with the science fiction genre but the biological investigation by Stone, Leavitt et al is most assuredly science fiction and most importantly a fascinating account of how an extraterrestrial bacteria might react to human beings and how human beings might react in return.It's a methodical, slow burn thriller that's heavy on theLots of science but also lots of suspense so it was a great balance! Amazing that I never read this one since I seem to have read most of Crichtons other books. He certainly had the gift of making science accessible and then taking the next fictional step whether it be aliens, evolution or some other scientific puzzle. Now Im ready for the sequel...
The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda #1), Michael CrichtonThe Andromeda Strain is a 1969 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton. A team is deployed to recover a military satellite which has returned to Earth, but contact is lost abruptly. Aerial surveillance reveals that everyone in Piedmont, Arizona, the town closest to where the satellite landed, is apparently dead. The duty officer of the base tasked with retrieving the satellite suspects that it returned with an extraterrestrial contaminant
Its weird to think that a popular best-selling novel from 1969 can still have an impact today, but Michael Crichtons The Andromeda Strain is still a rather frightening, fascinating, and fun read, fifty years later.Crichton was never a stellar wordsmith. He was a much better thinker than he was a writer, but his gift was in taking the latest in socio-political, scientific thinking and shaping an entertaining story around an idea. Oftentimes, these ideas opened the door for conversations on a
I read The Andromeda Strain back in my youth and had fond memories of it. So, I recently grabbed an eBook version to revisit it. I'm not exactly sure from where the fond memories came. It's not that great a book. On the positive side, there are few female characters so Crichton's misogynistic streak is mostly absent, but that's about it.Dialogue is sparse and flat. Characters aren't much better. Crichton seems more intent on showing off his research than about telling a compelling story. The
Scientists! Making things happen! Getting called out of their homes in the middle of the night! Rigorously sanitizing every inch of their bodies! Looking over ascii-image printouts! Performing exhaustive tests! Debating theories of exobiology! And it's a total blast! Michael Crichton made microorganisms scary and cool for the masses with science that isn't laughable 40 years later. Is it any wonder that when he got his hands on dinosaurs he set the entertainment industry on fire? Worth noting
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