A review by cutlassmeatmouth
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
5.0
Human curiosity brings a deadly organism down from the upper atmosphere. Good thing the US government has contingencies for things like this, right?
Everything of Michael Chrichton that I've ever read has been well researched and well thought out speculative science fiction. Even though much of his work is 50 years old, his predictions for the way technology is going to progress don't seem far off. His timeline may have been overly optimistic, but almost everything he describes still seems like it's coming.
This book is interesting, fast-moving, and (like most of his work) an easy and entertaining read. He strips a lot of non-essential elements from this book, no character development, no morality plays. It's a play-by-play of an unfolding disaster that reads like a novel.
Everything of Michael Chrichton that I've ever read has been well researched and well thought out speculative science fiction. Even though much of his work is 50 years old, his predictions for the way technology is going to progress don't seem far off. His timeline may have been overly optimistic, but almost everything he describes still seems like it's coming.
This book is interesting, fast-moving, and (like most of his work) an easy and entertaining read. He strips a lot of non-essential elements from this book, no character development, no morality plays. It's a play-by-play of an unfolding disaster that reads like a novel.