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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- 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, nouvelles
- PZ4 C928 1969
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