The Andromeda Strain

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Author(s):

Michael Crichton

First Pub:

1969

Genre(s):

Mystery; Science Fiction

First Read:

1982

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

See 31

1 - The Country of Lost Borders

2 - Vendenberg

3 - Crisis

4 - Alert

5 - The Early Hours

6 - Piedmont

7 - "An Unusual Process"

8 - Directive 7-12

9 - Flatrock

10 - Stage I

11 - Decontamination

12 - The Conference

13 - Level V

14 - Miscellaneous

15 - Main Control

16 - Autopsy

17 - Recovery

18 - The Noon Conference

19 - Crash

20 - Routine

21 - The Midnight Conference

22 - The Analysis

23 - Topeka

24 - Evaluation

25 - Willis

26 - The Seal

27 - Scared to Death

28 - The Test

29 - Three Minutes

30 - The Last Day

Epilogue - Epilogue

Internal ID:

187

Series:

No series

Copyright:

First Sentence:

None on file

Last Sentence:

None on file

Comments:

No comments on file

Extract not on file

Added: 29-Dec-2002

Last Updated: 24-Apr-2020

01-Sep-1977

Dell Publishing Company

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Sep-1977

Cover Price:

$1.95

Pages*:

291

Read:

Once

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

544

Publisher:

Dell Publishing Company

ISBN:

0-440-10199-9

ISBN-13:

978-0-440-10199-4

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

"Will glue you to your chair, just as surely as watching the televised walk on the moon... hideously plausible suspense."
Detroit Free Press

"One of the big books of the season... relentlessly suspenseful... for a hair-raising experience, read THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN!"
Pittsburgh Press

"Brims with authority, moves at white-hot speed. Disconnect with doorbell, take the phone off the hook. Once you start this gripper of a novel, you'll tolerate no interruption."
Buffalo News

A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection

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Notes and Comments:

01-Sep-1977
Dell Publishing Company

Author(s)

Michael Crichton
Birth: 23 Oct 1942 Chicago, Illinois, USA
Death: 04 Nov 2008 Los Angeles, CA, USA

Notes:

From the back flap of Rising Sun:

Michael Crichton was born in Chicago, in 1942. He was educated at Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School, and in 1969 was a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. His novels include The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man, The Great Train Robbery, Eaters of the Dead, Congo, Sphere, and Jurassic Park. He is the author of four works of nonfiction: Five Patients, Jasper Johns, Electronic Life, and Travels. Among the films he has directed are Westworld, Coma, and the movie version of his own The Great Train Robbery. In 1988 he was Visiting Writer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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