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The Andromeda Strain

The Andromeda Strain

by Michael Crichton

American Science fictionFictionFiction in EnglishAlien life forms in fictionBiological weapons
4.2
Open Library
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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. ---------- This work also contained in: - [The Andromeda Strain / Terminal Man](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46874W) - [The Great Train Robbery / The Andromeda Strain](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24159635W) - [Rising Sun / The Andromeda Strain / Binary](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL23658811W)

Themes & subjects

American Science fictionFictionFiction in EnglishAlien life forms in fictionBiological weaponsScience fiction

Characters & people

Setting

PiedmontArizonaFlatrockNevadaLas VegasDepartment of Agriculture research station1960s

About the author

Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton

October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008

An American writer and filmmaker.

Author

Michael Crichton

Pages

295

Read time

≈ 7h

Editions

67

Languages

English, Italian, Chinese

Publisher

Dell

ISBN

9783426032589

Where to buy

TR
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