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(1969)
The Andromeda Strain
1st Avon Books paperback printing (1)
by Michael Crichton
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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.
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American Science fiction, Fiction, Fiction in English, Alien life forms in fiction, Biological weapons, Science fiction, Extraterrestrial microorganisms, Military satellites, aerial surveillance, duty officers, extraterrestrial life, contamination, microorganisms, biological agents, blood clotting, suicide, Sterno, meteors, chemical elements, crystal structures, DNA, RNA, proteins, amino acids, pH, alkali, human blood, acidocis, aspirin, hyperventilation, Alkalosis, biocontainment, antibiotics, pathogens, synthetic rubber, nuclear weapons, nuclear explosions, biofilm, techno-thriller, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, medical, Large type books, Romans, nouvellesPeople
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The Andromeda Strain
2017-01, Vintage Books
Paperback
in English
- First Vintage Books Edition (9)
1101974494 9781101974490
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The Andromeda Strain
2003-11, Avon Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 1st Avon Books paperback printing (1)
0060541814 9780060541811
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La Amenaza de Andromeda
2002, B Ediciones S.A.
Mass Market Paperback
in English
8440629559 9788440629555
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The Andromeda Strain
1994?, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 1st Ballantine Books edition (29)
0345378482 9780345378484
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The Andromeda Strain
1993-01, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 1st Ballantine Books edition (33)
0345378482 9780345378484
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The Andromeda Strain
1993-01, Turtleback
Library Binding
in English
- 1st Ballantine books edition (56)
0606141545 9780606141543
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The Andromeda Strain
1987-06, Dell
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 4th edition (2)
0440101999 9780440101994
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"A MAN WITH BINOCULARS."
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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.
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