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Michael Crichton
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The Andromeda Strain A Novel |
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No copies available |
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Hardcover |
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295 |
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1969 |
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B000NPWJWO |
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Alfred A. Knopf |
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1.6 pounds |
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5.8 x 8.4 x 1.1 inches |
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Book Club (BCE/BOMC) |
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3 Brian (USA: CA), POEdoyle (USA: WV), Cameron (USA: WI) |
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Product Description
This book describes a fictious encounter with microbes from beyond. The men sent to recover a sattelite from where it has landed in this small town wonder why there are no lights at all in a town at ten-oclock at night. They enter the town and within five minutes are dead.
Next we encounter a number of scientists in different locations as they are alerted to the situation and sent to the government labratory that has been prepared for this situation, and the steps that they take to analyze and isolate the organism. The lab is the perfect place to study such an organism: it is even equipped with a nuclear self-destruct in case things go wrong.....
Mr. Crichton tells a simple but logical tale in this volume and as he often does in his books, makes it hard to distinguish between the real elements of science that he uses for the basis of the premise, and the fictious facts he makes to take the premise to its conclusion. This is classic fiction, and the fact that it is over thirty years old takes nothing from it. Definitely worth the read.
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