The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

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The Andromeda Strain chronicles five days in the life of an alien life form. Brought back to earth by a secret government satellite, the life form acts like a virus or bacteria, but its structural composition resembles nothing on earth. The alien life form spreads its deadly disease through tiny Piedmont, Arizona, wiping out much of the population in a matter of seconds. When the military men sent to retrieve the...

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"The Andromeda Strain"

642 words, approx. 3 pages

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton is a vivid novel of fiction based on real scientific knowledge and procedure. It tells of five scientists searching to identify and classify an alien life fo... Read more

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2,750 words, approx. 10 pages

The first chapter starts with two men, one of a man named Roger Shawn looked through his binoculars. He was looking at a town called Piedmont. Both of them were there to retrieve a scoop capsule which... Read more

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