the andromeda strain by michael crichton

Finding a capsule obviously from outer space.However what should they do, give it to the local doctor the silly man opens the object and promptly expires, as will the rest.the fifty others all except a two- month -old baby and a sixty-nine- year-old man, the whole town succumbs why? When finally discovered, two satellite retrievers don 't come back, Vandenberg Air Force base (the Cape Canaveral of the west coast) sends jets to look around, safely thousands of feet high above the troubles.not good, bodies scattered over the little town and the hungry vultures are having a feast. Or do they?Īn ubiquitous small town in the remote Arizona desert, a pleasant area of the late 1960's such a wonderful place is the setting as startled but curious, often bored people in Piedmont where nothing ever happens it does tonight, they look up in the dark sky something is falling, drifting slowly. A super team of science hotshots that makes Sheldon and Leonard look like middle schoolers takes it down to the line to pull us all from the brink. Seems an alien organism is making folks die – immediately.

That’s an actual line from the book and describes one of the hero scientists’ attempts to come to grips with what was going on. True, some of the overly technical sections dragged and I recalled moments from HS when I daydreamed the lecture away but Crichton never let his lesson stray too far from the subject at hand – scaring the Heeby Jeebies out of us. Like a Jonathon Edwards sermon, his straight man delivery creates a technical tension that informs as it terrorizes. Crichton put his best bedside manner forward and patiently explained his biological horror story in a way that – made it scarier. But whereas Weir stepped it down for the rest of us with some laugh out loud humor, the good Dr. Similar to Andy Weir’s brilliant 2011 mega success The Martian, this is hard science fiction told by an actual scientist. Nine years before Stephen King’s heavy, genre defining smackdown novel The Stand, intelligent tall guy Michael Crichton quietly blew people away with his own hard science Big Bang Theory epidemic story.

The andromeda strain by michael crichton