The Andromeda Strain
(The Andromeda Strain) Michael Crichton
"A man with twins. So it began, with a man planted by the roadside on a ridge overlooking a small town in Arizona, a winter night."
"The Andromeda Strain" ( "The Andromeda Strain" ) is a science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton in 1969. The novel represents the first best-seller called "father of the techno-thriller." The novel was made into a movie with the novel by Robert Wise in 1971 in addition to the small screen in miniseries format, issued by A & E Network in 2008 and produced by brothers Scott.
In 1969, while the rest of the world worried about the nuclear crisis, Crichton, even in the twenty years in medical school, surprised the audience with a novel that, by counterparty, was a biological crisis style fresh, innovative and so realistic that it made many people wonder if it really was a true story.
"The Andromeda Strain" was certainly a turning point in the writer's life, from that time, acquire great significance in the world of the novel, reinforcing the techno-thriller genre. It was his first best-seller.
The novel assumes a government planning to study or control an alien body that could reach Earth, accidentally, through one of the satellites of many space missions that had at the time, and how the scientists involved will strive to control the pandemic.
Crichton, with its traditional character and visionary critical eye, takes us into the shortcomings of the unit (establishment) military science and space to show that despite our best efforts, both technical and economic, we can not study or control we do not know, especially if it is the concept of "life." The novel is written in an era in which States United were erected as a patron of science, research and technology in full decadent phase of the Cold War. ARGUMENT
A group of U.S. scientists, led by Jeremy Stone, study the problem of an alleged extraterrestrial contamination due to poor sterilization, and the likelihood of this happening through space probes, which return of missions to outer space. Thus, two years before the "incident Andromeda", the United States government approves a project, proposed by Jeremy Stone and Peter Leavitt, called "Project Wildfire", which aims to take over del estudio del supuesto organismo u organismos que pudieran filtrarse en la atmósfera terrestre, así como de encontrar un antídoto a futuras infecciones.
Dos años después de haber sido creado el proyecto Wilfire, el satélite norteamericano Scoop 7 es obligado a salir de su órbita para hacerlo aterrizar en una desolada zona desértica de Arizona. Cuando los agentes de campo del proyecto Scoop van a recoger el satélite, descubren que ha sido trasladado al pequeño pueblo de Piedmont cuyos habitantes han perecido rápida y misteriosamente... inevitablemente, se desata el terror.
Así, el equipo de científicos del Wildfire se activa para hacer entrar en servicio a sus integrantes, investigar and try to block the biological agent that causes death, in a wildly erratic career in medical research and scientific-biological, against time and against a probable extermination of the human species.
This book tells the story of the five days of an American scientific crisis of significant proportions. As in most crises, acntecimientos surrounding that under which the microbe "Andromeda" was a compound of foresight and foolishness, innocence and ignorance ... In the near future we can expect more crises in the style of the "Andromeda." So consider it useful to give consideration to the public on how to emerge scientific crises and how they are facing.
Michael Crichton.
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