About this book
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.
- American Science fiction
- Fiction
- Fiction in English
- Alien life forms in fiction
- Biological weapons
- Science fiction
- Extraterrestrial microorganisms
- Military satellites
