An edition of The Andromeda Strain (1969)

The Andromeda Strain

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An edition of The Andromeda Strain (1969)

The Andromeda Strain

1st Ballantine Books edition (56)

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Five prominent biophysicists give the United States government an urgent warning: sterilzation procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere.

Two years later, Project Scoop sends seventeen satellites into the fringes of space in order to 'collect organisms and dust for study'.

Then a probe falls to the earth, landing in a desolate area of northeastern Arizona. A little while later, in the nearby town of Piedmont, bodies are discovered heaped and flung across the ground, faces locked in frozen surprise. The terror has begun...
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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

People

Wildfire Team, Jeremy Stone, Peter Jackson, Jamie Ritter, Mark Hall, Charle Burton, Peter Leavitt

Places

Piedmont, Arizona, Flatrock, Nevada, Las Vegas, Department of Agriculture research station

Times

1960s

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The Andromeda Strain
2003-11, Avon Books
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La Amenaza de Andromeda
2002, B Ediciones S.A.
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The Andromeda Strain
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The Andromeda Strain
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The Andromeda Strain
1993-01, Ballantine Books
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The Andromeda Strain
1993-01, Turtleback
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The Andromeda Strain
1987-06, Dell
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The Andromeda Strain
1970-06, Dell
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The Andromeda Strain
1970-06, Dell
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The Andromeda Strain
1969, Alfred A. Knopf
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New York, USA
Copyright Date
1969

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
PS3553.R48 A83 1993x

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Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
xiii, 286 p. : ill., maps ;
Number of pages
286

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24951725M
ISBN 10
0345378482
ISBN 13
9780345378484
OCLC/WorldCat
31238219
Goodreads
53237258

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OL46909W

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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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