The Andromeda Strain
1969 • 288 pages
Ratings153
Average rating3.7
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Ratings153
Average rating3.7
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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Featured Series
1 primary bookAndromeda is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 1962 with contributions by Michael Crichton, Zé Burnay, and 2 others.
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Read this one in high school and realized I hadn't yet rated.
Interesting from a scientific standpoint but with cardboard characters.
Enjoyable, if a tad over-scientific. I didn't enjoy it as much as other Crichton novels I've read, I think because his story-telling skills weren't highly developed at this point. I didn't dislike it, but I wouldn't recommend it.
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