The team is called upon to handle exactly that when something starts killing off humans in seconds. The fear of contamination by returning space probes has also led to the formation of Wildfire, a team that can handle a contingency at a specially created facility. Project Scoop, whose objective is to collect organisms from the fringes of space for study. It all begins in Piedmont, Arizona, a small town where a probe has crash-landed. As one character explains, any form of radiation would lose its potency over space, but a living cell can retain its characteristics if it is made with that end in mind. In this case, it is less the physics of space travel, and more biology. But this book shows that first contact could actually be anything. When one thinks of an extra terrestrial “invasion”, the usual suspects are a highly advanced species arriving in spaceships. For me, his name has always been associated with Jurassic Park (as a movie) and now I find that quite surprising! It took a combination of Westworld (the current series version) and a couple of “science fiction you must read” lists to get this book into my shelf. Copyright renewed 1996 by CrichtonSun LLC (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.I am quite a bit late to the Crichton book party. 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.
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