Almost immediately, it infects and kills most of the town’s inhabitants, while others are driven insane and commit suicide. When one of these satellites crash lands in a small Arizona town, it unleashes a germ that makes The Stand’s Captain Trips look like a head cold. government deployed satellites to find alien microorganisms to weaponize them. The book’s premise is that in the 1960s, the U.S. I first read The Andromeda Strain in 1993, and it has stuck with me ever since. It will be hard to talk about this aspect of the book without some *SPOILERS*, but this novel has been around since 1969, so folks have had plenty of time to read it. In fact, I’ve often used the story as an analogy for where the virus may be heading as it slowly becomes endemic. Here are my thoughts after tearing through both books.Īll the news about virus variants has had me thinking about The Andromeda Strain for some time. In doing so, I quickly discovered there’s a sequel to the novel, though it’s not written by Crichton, who passed away in 2008. I read very little science fiction these days, but at the end of last year, while getting over COVID, I decided to re-read Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain.
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