The Andromeda Strain

Posted on 11 August 2017 by Michael Crichton

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. Free Download [ The Andromeda Strain ] Author [ Michael Crichton ] – kino-fada.fr Nine years before Stephen King s heavy, genre defining smackdown novel The Stand, intelligent tall guy Michael Crichton quietly blew people away with his own hard science Big Bang Theory epidemic story.Similar to Andy Weir s brilliant 2011 mega success The Martian, this is hard science fiction told by an actual scientist But whereas Weir stepped it down for the rest of us with some laugh out loud humor, the good Dr Crichton put his best bedside manner forward and patiently explained his biolog Nine years before Stephen King s heavy, genre defining smackdown novel The Stand, intelligent tall guy Michael Crichton quietly blew people away with his own hard science Big Bang Theory epidemic story.Similar to Andy Weir s brilliant 2011 mega success The Mart...liked the beginning, thought the end was unbelievably anticlimatic.This book is a good example that sometimes the rating that one gives to one book isn t fault itself of the book but due the timing of when you read it in relation with having read other books of the same author.All that long introduction is to explain that my very reason to give only 3 stars to this very good book is because I happened to read it after of reading Sphere see review of that book HERE , that I find quite similar in the general premise.Both books have the calling of a expert scien This book is a good example that sometimes the rating that one gives to one book isn t fault itself of the book but due the timing of when you read it in relation with having read other books of the same author.All that long introduction is to explain that my very reason to give only 3 stars to this very good book is because I happened to read it after of reading Sphere see review of that book HERE , that I find quite similar in the general premise.Both books have the calling of a expert scientific team to deal with an alien threat.Beyond that, both books deal differently with the sto... 1969There s a good story in here, somewhere If Crichton tackled this idea later in his career it would have undoubtedly been a great book There s just far too much science and not enough thriller.The sixth novel by Michael Crichton but the first published in 1969 under his own name and the first in which he bent science fiction and suspense together in ways that would propel Crichton to the top of the bestseller lists and into cinemas for the next thirty years, The Andromeda Strain didn t retain many surprises for me, but in its own delightful way, reminded me of a science and technology museum exhibit and the docent giving me a tour And here we have a pioneering thriller of technolo The sixth novel by Michael Crichton but the first published in 1969 under his own name and the first in which h...This book is all about the tension, not the payoff As with most entertainment, this book pulls you in by asking some questions What is it How does it work What happened While those questions are still being asked, this book is a fairly thrilling read.If you don t like books that get too technical about things, though, this isn t the book for you It s full of pages from government documents, computer readouts, and the like That only helps the book go by quicker, because I just skippe This book is all about the tension, not the payoff As with most entertainment, this book pulls you in by asking some questions What is it How does it work What happened While those questions are still being asked, this book is a fairly thrilling read.If you don t like books that get too technical about things, though, this isn t the book for you It s full of pages from government documents, compu...I m not sure if this book is a 4 or 5, but I think I liked iton second reading It is really engaging, heavy on the science, which for the most part, great added to the authenticity of the novel On rare occasions, view spoiler e.g., toward the end where Crichton introduces unnecessary commentary on some experimental disease treatment that is irrelevant to the story and seems awfully forced hide spoiler , the science is burdensome.The story is a slow burn, building tension over the co I m not sure if this book is a 4 or 5, but I think I liked iton second reading It is really engaging, heavy on the science, which for the most part, great added to the authenticity of the novel On rare occasions, view spoiler e.g., toward the end where Crichton introduces unnecessary commentary on some experim...This was probably one of the first science fiction books I ever read, and so far the only book by Crichton My rating is based on my reaction over three decades ago I seem to recall there were some parts that felt awkward, like they were written by someone trying to leap across the so called generation gap But my teen self loved the book, so it gets the five stars I have no idea whether I d still feel as generous if I were to re read it, but then I seldom re read books anyway The movie wa This was probably one of the first science fiction books I ever read, and so far the only book by Crichton My rating is based on my reaction over three decades ago I seem to recall there were some parts that felt awkward, like they were written by someone trying to leap across the so called generation gap But my teen self loved the book, so it gets the...This is a review of the audiobook I first read The Andromeda Strain way back when I was about 12 years old or so Back then the YA genre wasn t available for us precocious readers so we graduated from Nancy Drew straight to Stephen King, Micheal Crichton and the like There is nothing scarier than something we cannot see Add in some alien elements and it becomes even scarier Alien virus from outer space freaky The audio version was not as good as the book, nor was it as good as the movie f This is a review of the audiobook I first read Th...

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11 August 2017

Michael Crichton