One of the first "grown-up" authors I discovered as a kid in middle school was Michael Crichton. Despite reading a bunch of his books I never read The Andromeda Strain. I didn't even know what it was about... for some reason I thought it was about space travel or aliens or something. Instead it is about a mysterious organism/virus that is brought to Earth from the upper atmosphere and seems to instantly cause death in anyone exposed to it. Luckily the U.S. has readied a team of scientists and a special laboratory just in case this were to ever happen.Overall I enjoyed it. My only real problem is that the ending is a bit anti-climactic. Also it was interesting that the theme of mankind causing problems for themselves by over exploiting science is the same as in Jurassic Park and Westworld. I'll give it a B+
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