- American Science fiction, Fiction, Fiction in English, Alien life forms in fiction
The Andromeda Strain is a 1969 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton, his first novel under his own name and his sixth novel overall. It is written as a report documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating the outbreak of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism in New Mexico. The Andromeda Strain appeared in the New York Times Best Seller list, establishing Michael Crichton as a genre writer.
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- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Michael Crichton
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 295
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Cape, Jonathan, Corgi
- Editions
- 68
- Language
- Italian, Chinese, per, German
- ISBN
- 9780061137563
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