The Andromeda Strain
About this book
The Andromeda Strain is a 1969 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton, his first novel under his own name and his sixth novel overall. It is written as a report documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating the outbreak of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism in New Mexico. The Andromeda Strain appeared in the New York Times Best Seller list, establishing Michael Crichton as a genre writer.
---------- This work also contained in:
- The Andromeda Strain / Terminal Man - The Great Train Robbery / The Andromeda Strain - Rising Sun / The Andromeda Strain / Binary
Subjects
- acidocis
- aerial surveillance
- alien life forms in fiction
- alkali
- alkalosis
- american science fiction
- amino acids
- antibiotics
- aspirin
- biocontainment
- biofilm
- biological agents
- biological weapons
- blood clotting
- chemical elements
- contamination
- crystal structures
- dna
- duty officers
- extraterrestrial life
- extraterrestrial microorganisms
- fiction
- fiction in english
- fiction, medical
- fiction, science fiction, general
- human blood
- hyperventilation
- large type books
- long now manual for civilization
- meteors
- microorganisms
- military satellites
- nuclear explosions
- nuclear weapons
- pathogens
- ph
- proteins
- pz4 c928 1969
- rna
- romans, nouvelles
- science fiction
- sterno
- suicide
- synthetic rubber
- techno-thriller