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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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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.
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| Title | : | The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda #1) |
| Author | : | Michael Crichton |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special 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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Ratings: 3.89 From 212179 Users | 3643 ReviewsAssessment Containing Books The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda #1)
This is not a book of the genre I usually read (that is, I read thrillers but rather not with such strong science fiction elements). The more I am surprised how much I liked it.What makes this book so good is in my opinion its strong realism. This story does not seem like fiction, but like a report of real events. And that's really something! Ultimately, we have here elements typical for science fiction - contact with an alien form of life from space. This topic is very difficult to classify asThe sixth novel by Michael Crichton but the first published (in 1969) under his own name and the first in which he bent science fiction and suspense together in ways that would propel Crichton to the top of the bestseller lists and into cinemas for the next thirty years, The Andromeda Strain didn't retain many surprises for me, but in its own delightful way, reminded me of a science and technology museum exhibit and the docent giving me a tour: "And here we have a pioneering thriller of
This is a review of the audiobook. I first read The Andromeda Strain way back when I was about 12 years old or so. Back then the YA genre wasn't available for us precocious readers so we graduated from Nancy Drew straight to Stephen King, Micheal Crichton and the like. There is nothing scarier than something we cannot see. Add in some alien elements and it becomes even scarier. Alien virus from outer space - freaky. The audio version was not as good as the book, nor was it as good as the movie
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
This book recounts the five-day history of a major American scientific crisis.As in most crises, the events surrounding the Andromeda Strain were a compound of foresight and foolishness, innocence and ignorance. Nearly everyone involved had moments of great brilliance, and moments of unaccountable stupidity. It is therefore impossible to write about the events without offending some of the participants.I decided to reread The Andromeda Strain to get ready for the new sequel, The Andromeda
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