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Loading... The Andromeda Strain (1969)by Michael Crichton
  
» 18 more Favorite Childhood Books (1,112) 1960s (38) Books Read in 2015 (1,798) Alien Contact (20) Carole's List (262) Favourite Books (1,483) Unread books (812) No current Talk conversations about this book.  Floyd3345 | Jun 15, 2019 |  Interesting premise, but ultimately slow and dull. Not a classic. (  ) miri12 | May 31, 2019 | Great until it wasn't... ( ) NormalMostly | May 20, 2019 | ot Crichton's best work but still an enjoyable read. The story is heavily embedded in science; so, be prepared for a lot of dry scientific information, a lot of which went over my head. Thanks goodness I enjoy the science stuff even when some of it is over my head. I thought the ending was rather anticlimactic. There was a bit of build up and then we have this ending that felt somewhat unimaginative. I did like the idea of a space born virus and felt the story could have gone so many places that would have been more interesting. If you like Sci-Fi stories steeped in science, this is the book for you. (  ) purpledog | May 11, 2019 | Exciting but dated. (  ) Matt_B | Nov 9, 2018 | Is contained inThe Andromeda Strain ; The Terminal Man ; The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton The Andromeda Strain [and] The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton Michael Crichton Omnibus: "Rising Sun", "Andromeda Strain", "Binary" by Michael Crichton The Great Train Robbery [and] The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton Michael Crichton Value Collection: Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, and The Lost World (The Michael Crichton Collection) by Michael Crichton Crichton Thrillers-4 Vol. Boxed Set (Andromeda Strain Sphere The Great Train Robbery Terminal Man) by Michael Crichton Has the adaptation
 Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0060541814, Mass Market Paperback)Some biologists speculate that if we ever make contact with extraterrestrials, those life forms are likely to be--like most life on earth--one-celled or smaller creatures, more comparable to bacteria than little green men. And even though such organisms would not likely be able to harm humans, the possibility exists that first contact might be our last.That's the scientific supposition that Michael Crichton formulates and follows out to its conclusion in his excellent debut novel, The Andromeda Strain. A Nobel-Prize-winning bacteriologist, Jeremy Stone, urges the president to approve an extraterrestrial decontamination facility to sterilize returning astronauts, satellites, and spacecraft that might carry an "unknown biologic agent." The government agrees, almost too quickly, to build the top-secret Wildfire Lab in the desert of Nevada. Shortly thereafter, unbeknownst to Stone, the U.S. Army initiates the "Scoop" satellite program, an attempt to actively collect space pathogens for use in biological warfare. When Scoop VII crashes a couple years later in the isolated Arizona town of Piedmont, the Army ends up getting more than it asked for. The Andromeda Strain follows Stone and rest of the scientific team mobilized to react to the Scoop crash as they scramble to understand and contain a strange and deadly outbreak. Crichton's first book may well be his best; it has an earnestness that is missing from his later, more calculated thrillers. --Paul Hughes (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:22:07 -0400) 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.… (more) |
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While I have read other books by Crichton, this one is the earliest one of his works that I have read. It is a true page-turner, with a new thrill coming every minute. It is one of those books that is difficult to put down after the first few pages. (