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Summary: Riveting Trip Into A Biochemical Scientific Underworld
Review: This riveting novel was written so elequently, and yet Crichton-style straight-forward. The reader is drawn into a realm of science and experimentation where the slightest error has catastrophic repercussions. I found myself breathing quicker as the book progressed, attempting to protect myself from the deadly virus Crichton magically created
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Summary: The Birth of Crichton! Is he an A.L.F. to be this good?
Review: How does he do it? Each story so different. Each story with a messege. Each story so well done! He must be an Alien Life Form in disguise. Probably he is really a spiderlike creature from another galaxy who comes to earth, a la Steven King, every couple of years to steal the minds of several million readers, packing them in paper bags so that they can be eaten in brain soup kitchens for out of work spiders back on his home planet in M81. His collection is mesmerizing. Sphere, Jurasic Park, Congo, and now even ER on TV. But Andromeda Strain has got to be one of his best. Science fiction at its best, tense, thought provoking, realistic, yet previously unimagined. A trip down a cerebral worm hole where time and space are warped into a tale that could be true, in the not to distant future, but actually exposes the timeless truth that is human nature where ever or when ever carbon based life forms are present. If this was Crichton's begining I can't even begin to imagine his ending
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Summary: UHHH this is what evryone says is awsome
Review: alright I guess. Although it moves at a speed I like the book is only second rate compared to his other books. Worth the time spent reading it, but definatly disappointing compared to his other works. Give it a try maybe you'll like it better than me
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Summary: A mess of a novel
Review: This book is thought of by many to be a sort of modern classic, but I really didn't like it. It's full of plot twists that lead absolutely NOWHERE. There are certain revelations that make the preceding part of the novel seem a total waste of time. The character's efforts have no effect and eventually, the book is resolved when the virus mutates into a harmless form. The whole book is a waste of time. The characters are useless. The book is just a way for Crichton to show off medicla knowledge. All in all, it's a mess
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Summary: A space shuttle crashes and an alien virus is released.
Review: The Millitary quickly learns of the situation and sends people to check it out, but they don't return. The town's population is deminished and the virus shows how deadly it is. Now the U.S. must contain and destroy the virus, if possible
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Summary: Four scientists race against time to destroy an alien virus
Review: A routine sattelite recovery operation goes horribly wrong
when an extremely lethal extra-terrestrial virus comes down to earth. Mysteriously, the entire population of a town is wiped out, except for a small child and an old man. Could there be any possible connection? A group of four scientists must now get together at a secret research facility in Nevada to try and find out more about the virus. If it escapes, the country will be doomed. So, they must then find a way to kill or destroy it. When an accident occurs, their worst fears are realised, but they are still in for one last shock.
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Summary: Amazing in the sense
Review: I read this book in the sixth grade, then read it again in the
in the seventh, and again in the eighth. I couldn't put it
down,and I hate to rea
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Summary: A suspenseful story about a virus of extraterrestrial origin
Review: A great story about scientists who rush to contain and find a cure for the andromeda strain, only to find that it adapts and that they have no way to control it
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Summary: A very captivating book for its tiem.
Review: 'The Andromeda Strain' involves a new deadly disease that has been brought back to earth, by a military/science sattelite. A space rpogram has been designed to enter space and bring back samples in the hopes of finding a new bacterial weapon. The book describes a secret government base where such diseases can be contained and researched.Well, the program is a success. A deadly germ is brought back to Earth, and proceeds to wipe out a remote town. The germ is isolated in the governmetn facility, and the race is on to find how this entity reactes with the human body and how it can be cured or neutralized. The book is a little dated, but none the less a great plot. I remember seeing the movie when I was young and loving it. I finally found the time to read the book. It is one of Critchon's early works, but stil very good. If you are a Critchon fan (or not) I would recommend this book. It is quick paced and good for those days beside the pool or at the beach.
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Summary: Interesting book playing off an issue of the time
Review: This book was written around 1969, when astronauts were first landing on the moon. There was a serious concern about the possibility, however slight, that there were micro-organisms on the moon that might return to Earth and cause an epidemic. This concern led to the quarantine of returning astronauts (and the rocks they collected) from the first few missions that landed. This ended when the fears proved unfounded. (There is an interesting side note. The second moon landing recovered several pieces of an unmanned probe that had landed several years earlier. It was found that bacteria in the probe had survived the launch, the landing on the moon, and several years on the airless surface of the moon with temperature swings of hundreds of degrees.) This book plays off of this idea of "bad stuff from space causes problems on Earth." There are more than 300 other reviews, so I'll mostly leave the plot alone here. What I liked about it was the sense it gave of scientific investigation of an important topic on a short time scale. Trying to "beat the clock," the scientists have to come up with and discard theories for how the unfamiliar organism works with unaccustomed speed, which (as you might imagine) stresses them out. In parallel with other Crichton books, the action takes place over about a week, with simple errors and accidents costing valuable time. The book is newly relevant with the possibility of "designer" biological agents from labs in rouge nations (or from terrorists) playing the role of the alien infectious agent in the book.
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