The Andromeda strain.

Mass Market Paperback, 272 pages

English language

Published Nov. 11, 1993 by Ballantine Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-345-37848-4
OCLC Number:: 31238219

(1 review)

A military satellite launched to collect organisms in the upper atmosphere comes down in Arizona. Within a few hours, almost everyone in a nearby town is dead. A team of scientists is assembled to investigate.

40 editions

Sam Firke reviewed The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

Classic sci-fi

4 stars

Content warning Ending revealed

The plot and science is compelling 50+ years later. I found the ending unsatisfying: the organism evolved to be no threat to humans, on its own? Does that make all of their research pointless - the outcome for humanity would have been the same if Project Wildfire didn't exist? But I thoroughly enjoyed the book overall.

Subjects

Biological weapons
Fiction

Places

Arizona
Nevada