Crichton
Publisher: Knopf
Released:12 May
1969
What’s possibly
worse than a digital
virus eating up your
computer’s data?
How about an extraterrestrial virus that
kills you from the
inside out? That is
basically the
premise of Michael
Crichton’s 1969
thriller novel, The
Andromeda Strain,
which eventually
became a TV miniseries in 2008.
A routine military satellite retrieval goes terribly wrong as it
was discovered during a live radio communication that the
team members deployed for the task suddenly dies. Later on,
an aerial surveillance of the area reveals that everyone in the
town closest to the crash site, in Piedmont, Arizona has passed
away as well. A government protocol called Wildfire is
activated, and with it, four microbiology experts were sent to
study and contain the unknown strain.
The Andromeda Strain is an excellent novel which tells a
no-holds barred account of how a group of researchers have to
deal with the threat of a bacterial strain that is constantly
evolving to suit its environment. It also shows how these
researchers have to deal with the various decisions that need
to be made to ensure their survivability versus allowing the
strain to escape to the open.
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