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  • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Harper (October 28, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 006170315X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0061703157
  • Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.9 x 7.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (602 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsHard to Comprehend, Easy to Understand
By A Customer on August 2, 2000
Format: Paperback
This isn't my first Michael Crichton book, but i think it's the best. I've read Jurassic Park, and the Lost World before this, and they were fairly good. But this book topped both of them. It was assigned summer reading for me this year, and i thought, "Oh great, another boring book that i have to read." But when i started reading it, I found myself reading for 2 hours just striving to complete the next chapter.(I'm a slow reader) The words that he uses are sometimes hard to read, and i pulled out a dictionary for all the ones that i couldn't figure out. I don't really like reading books, but this book has changed my mind on reading. It was so suspenseful in the end that i found i chewed my fingernails down to stubs when i finished reading. Anyone who loves suspense will be over powered by the amount of it generated by this book.
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4.0 out of 5 starsWhere were you on February 8, 1967?
By Primoz Peterlin on September 14, 2000
Format: Mass Market Paperback
The back cover starts: "Five prominent biophysicists give the US government an urgent warning: sterilisation procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere." Biophysicists, right? One can hardly find a more appropriate reading to read on the train, when I was travelling to the 3rd European biophysics congress in Munich earlier this month.
This novel will teach you that the life on earth was in early February 1967 close to disaster comparable to the impact of Chixculub meteorite 65 million years ago. An US space probe, Scoop VII, brought with it a highly virulent and pathogenous alien life form from the orbit, before it crashed into the Arizona desert. After wreaking havoc in a small Arizona town, the space probe is transferred into the ultra-secret high-security US government lab in Nevada, built just a couple of months before to prevent dispersion of toxic extraterrestrial agents. Here, a group of five scientists led by a Nobel prize winner, bacteriologist Jeremy Stone, starts a race with time. What exactly is this alien life form? By which mechanism does it affect human body? Under what conditions does it multiply? How can we stop it before it wipes away the human population?
The novel contains quite a bit of technical details - it's science fiction after all, right? - where Crichton will pause and explain with a patience and persistence of a good-humoured teacher. So in case you didn't know what proteins are and what they are made from; or how electron microscope operates; or what can cause blood acidity in a patient - you will learn it all here.
It would be interesting to know how many scientists today were influenced by this novel to pursue a career in science.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsCrichton Way Ahead of His Time
By A Customer on March 27, 1999
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Michael Crichton must be a psychic. Thirty years before researchers discovered the effects of microorganisms, Crichton predicted a virus just as deadly. The Andromeda Strain is a classic, terrifying novel of biophysics. The way Crichton combines facts and fiction results in a masterpiece. With the exception of some intense scientific vocabulary, the descriptive language used by Crichton in this novel is brilliant.
When an unmanned satellite returns to earth lethally contaminated, four American scientists are ordered to a secret lab to work against the threat of a worldwide epidemic. There are no villains in this novel - only the microscopic organisms of earth's extinction. This is a perfect story line, written with immense detail. Crichton does a superb job of setting the scene and describing the characters. He leaves his reader not wanting to stop, having great cliffhangers at the end of each chapter. The suspense builds inevitably to a heart-stopping conclusion. It is an intelligent and tightly plotted suspense-thriller.
Many of Crichton's works masterfully combine fact and fiction. The Andromeda Strain is no exception as the scientific elements are expertly interwoven with the fictional world of underground laboratories and secret agents. Crichton's facts about bacteria and viruses are right on - he goes as far as using quotes from professors and scientists as well as diagrams to support his arguments. When he switches to fictional mode, Crichton does not lose a step. His theories about government testing grounds and secret government projects, written thirty years prior, do not seem at all unrealistic in today's high-tech world.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsStrain Relief
A Kid's Review on September 4, 2001
Format: Mass Market Paperback
This book is the best, and I could never put it down! It describes the search for an organism that is killing people. The way Crichton portrays all of his characters is magnificent, which is why I really connected with this book. I felt as if I was the missing scientist from the team! I sincerely liked the way Crichton concealed the identity of the person who deciphered the mystery. I genuinely enjoyed reading about the long hours spent down in Level V of the Wildfire base. This is where Hall took care of Mr. Jackson and the baby, where Burton performed his autopsies, and where Stone and Leavitt worked on finding the organism. The other part I thoroughly enjoyed was reading about Burton and Stone while they were in Piedmont, looking for the satellite. What they found was so startling, that you hardly new what to expect next. I really believe you should buy this book, because it is such a wonderful scientific mystery!
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2.0 out of 5 starsFails to wow.

Involves a lot of technical jargon, including what is supposed to appear as computer read outs. Very Hard Science Fiction, with a very anticlimactic ending.

Published 7 days ago by KCarlson
4.0 out of 5 starsStill working fresh even in the 21st century . Changes of diagnosis...

Michael Crichton is well aware of human errors throughout science history and it serves him well in this book. Read more

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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Excellent - love the way he writes!

Published 7 days ago by Jason Stevens
4.0 out of 5 starsVery technical, disappointing ending, overall good read.

The book is a great read and will definitely have you turning pages in some parts. However, for other parts, some people just might not enjoy all the technical talk (even though he... Read more

Published 23 days ago by Sarah House
4.0 out of 5 starsEasy to read.

Good read. Interesting.

Published 29 days ago by Kevin Koch
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Great novel, he is a superb author.

Published 1 month ago by Zach
4.0 out of 5 starsAn intriguing hard science fiction novel worth your time (good...

I listened to Andromeda Strain on audio CD (narrated by David Morse, published by Brilliance Audio). It's a very intriguing story, especially the first 80% or so. Read more

Published 1 month ago by JD
1.0 out of 5 starsLamest sci fi book ever!

implausible. OK, here's this 5 level hot virus lab,..with a nuke bomb under it to blow the place up if something escapes. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Norman Cutter
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I got this for my BFF AEAE this was her favorite book in high school so happy I found it for her.

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4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

Plot could have been better.

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