The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

The science is understandable, it is just the plethora of facts that are included. I would not call it hard science, which is what I call books that have so much complex science they are hard for the average person to understand. Life is everywhere, bottom of the ocean, deserts, and in the air, so why not in space? I'M SURE IT'S A FLUKE This book is not for everyone.

I have a certain awe and wonder on the many different places life takes hold, on the many different strategies life comes up with. I have always had a great interest in biology and the diversity it can have. He is to biology, what Clarke was to rockets. After he explains them you will be a believer. His theories on possible aliens is not the expected. Horton Hears a Who Based on thinking out of the box (not cliché in 1969), Crichton was a genius. But the Andromeda Strain proves different from anything they’ve ever seen - and what they don’t know could not only hurt them, but lead to unprecedented worldwide catastrophe. Under conditions of total news blackout and the utmost urgency, the scientists race to understand and contain the crisis. Four of the nation’s most elite biophysicists are summoned to a clandestine underground laboratory located five stories beneath the desert and fitted with an automated atomic self-destruction mechanism for cases of irremediable contamination. The United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency response protocol. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant.

'I love anything Michael Crichton writes.' (Stephen King)Ī military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. First published fifty years ago, The Andromeda Strain redefined the science fiction genre, and immediately established Michael Crichton as one of the brightest voices in contemporary literature worldwide.

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton