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Ebook: The Andromeda Strain (prc, pdf, epub)
Author: Michael CrichtonCountry: United States
Language: English
Genre: Best Seller, Techno-thriller
Publisher: Knopf
Publication date: May 12, 1969
Media type: Hardcover
Pages: 350
ISBN: 0-394-41525-6
The Andromeda Strain (1969), by Michael Crichton, is a techno-thriller novel documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism which rapidly and fatally clots human blood, while inducing insanity in some people. The Andromeda Strain appeared in the New York Times Best Seller list, establishing Michael Crichton as a genre writer.
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.
