Don't get me wrong, there are some very exciting action parts to the book, it is not all about the numbers. The concepts and imagination of Crichton over ride some of the flaws in the writing style. When this was written, data, was important to Science Fiction books. If books with too much data, turns you off, then read one of Crichton's later books. This book is not about character development, so that lack of distinction does not play that heavily as it would in some other books. He has a gravely voice that he uses for a number of characters. The emergency secret group of scientists and doctors, who must answer the call immediately when something happens is also pretty cool.
WILDFIRE Besides coming up with a great alien invasion, Crichton comes up with a great underground facility. I would think the Black Plague or the Influenza in 1918, would be consider biological crises. Also the statement is made that we have never had a biological crisis. The reader gets them immediately and we find ourselves screaming at the radio, it's the acid stupid, the acid. There are some other faults, such as it is dated and the amount of times the geniuses miss obvious clues. These communications are often 2 or three seconds apart, yet we still get 0097, 03, 31, etc. In one part we are read a TRANSCRIPT OF VOICE COMMUINICATIONS SCOOP MISSION CONTROL, in which we hear the hours, minutes and seconds before each verbal communication. In the audible version they are monotonous. In the hardback some of these are in graphs and drawings. At times, I felt, surely he could have just gave us a summary of the facts instead of laboriously going over each and every detail. The science is understandable, it is just the plethora of facts that are included. I would not call it hard science, which is what I call books that have so much complex science they are hard for the average person to understand. Life is everywhere, bottom of the ocean, deserts, and in the air, so why not in space? I'M SURE IT'S A FLUKE This book is not for everyone. I have a certain awe and wonder on the many different places life takes hold, on the many different strategies life comes up with. I have always had a great interest in biology and the diversity it can have.
He is to biology, what Clarke was to rockets. After he explains them you will be a believer. His theories on possible aliens is not the expected. Horton Hears a Who Based on thinking out of the box (not cliché in 1969), Crichton was a genius. But the Andromeda Strain proves different from anything they’ve ever seen - and what they don’t know could not only hurt them, but lead to unprecedented worldwide catastrophe. Under conditions of total news blackout and the utmost urgency, the scientists race to understand and contain the crisis. Four of the nation’s most elite biophysicists are summoned to a clandestine underground laboratory located five stories beneath the desert and fitted with an automated atomic self-destruction mechanism for cases of irremediable contamination. The United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency response protocol. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant. "I love anything Michael Crichton writes." (Stephen King)Ī military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. First published fifty years ago, The Andromeda Strain redefined the science fiction genre, and immediately established Michael Crichton as one of the brightest voices in contemporary literature worldwide.
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