The Andromeda Strain
By Michael Crichton
(Harper, Mass Market Paperback, 9780061703157, 384pp.)
Publication Date: October 1, 2008
Other Editions of This Title: Compact Disc - Abridged (May 2004), Prebound (November 2003), Mass Market Paperback (October 2, 2003), Large Print (June 1997), Large Print (March 1997), Large Print (February 1994), Audio Cassette - Abridged (November 1993), Mass Market Paperback (September 1992), Mass Market Paperback (May 1970), Hardcover (May 1969)
Categories: Science Fiction - General
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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.
The terror has begun . . .
Michael Crichton's novels include Next, State of Fear, Prey, Timeline, Jurassic Park, and The Andromeda Strain. He is also known as a filmmaker and the creator of ER. One of the most popular writers in the world, he has sold over 150 million books, which have been translated into thirty-six languages; thirteen have been made into films. He remains the only writer to have had the number one book, movie, and TV show at the same time. Pirate Latitudes was discovered as a complete manuscript in his files after his death in 2008.
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