The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

But the terror has only just begun, because when they try to find the cause of death, the scientists don't realise just what kind of unearthly danger they are dealing with.īrilliantly filmed by Robert Wise in 1971, The Andromeda Strain was the first book to introduce Michael Crichton's audacious combination of believable plots and white-knuckled excitement to a wide audience. Based on the great Michael Crichtons 1969 best-seller of the same name, The Andromeda Strain was written by Nelson Gidding, Wises longtime collaborator. A little while later, in the nearby town of Piedmont, bodies are discovered heaped and flung across the ground, faces locked in frozen surprise.

Then a probe falls to the earth, landing in a desolate area of northeastern Arizona.

Two years later, Project Scoop sends seventeen satellites into the fringes of space in order to 'collect organisms and dust for study'. Read the spectacular techno-thriller that catapulted Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton to fame.įive prominent biophysicists give the United States government an urgent warning: sterilisation procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. The Andromeda Strain is a 2008 science fiction miniseries, based on the 1969 novel of the same name written by Michael Crichton about a team of scientists who investigate a deadly disease of extraterrestrial origin.

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton