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(1969)
The Andromeda Strain
1st Ballantine books edition (56)
by Michael Crichton
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What if there was a virus so lethal, it could kill people as quickly as they took a breath? What if it spared some people from instant death…but drove them hopelessly insane instead? What if the softest acting, deadliest virus ever known to humankind could be spread by no more than a gust of wind—from the remote desert site of its first massacre to the busiest cities in America…and the world? What, if anything, could stop it?
There are no villains in this hot zone. Only the microscopic seeds of Earth’s extinction. It is stealthy, sudden, savage. And we are all susceptible to it…
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American Science fiction, Fiction, Fiction in English, Alien life forms in fiction, Biological weapons, Science fiction, Extraterrestrial microorganisms, Military satellites, aerial surveillance, duty officers, extraterrestrial life, contamination, microorganisms, biological agents, blood clotting, suicide, Sterno, meteors, chemical elements, crystal structures, DNA, RNA, proteins, amino acids, pH, alkali, human blood, acidocis, aspirin, hyperventilation, Alkalosis, biocontainment, antibiotics, pathogens, synthetic rubber, nuclear weapons, nuclear explosions, biofilm, techno-thriller, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, medical, Large type books, Romans, nouvelles, PZ4 C928 1969People
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The Andromeda Strain
2017-01, Vintage Books
Paperback
in English
- First Vintage Books Edition (9)
1101974494 9781101974490
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The Andromeda Strain
2003-11, Avon Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 1st Avon Books paperback printing (1)
0060541814 9780060541811
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La Amenaza de Andromeda
2002, B Ediciones S.A.
Mass Market Paperback
in English
8440629559 9788440629555
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The Andromeda Strain
1994?, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 1st Ballantine Books edition (29)
0345378482 9780345378484
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The Andromeda Strain
1993-01, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 1st Ballantine Books edition (33)
0345378482 9780345378484
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The Andromeda Strain
1993-01, Turtleback
Library Binding
in English
- 1st Ballantine books edition (56)
0606141545 9780606141543
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The Andromeda Strain
1987-06, Dell
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 4th edition (2)
0440101999 9780440101994
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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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