Now, I knew going into this that it was fiction and I knew from years ago that Strain was also fiction – but the way that he wrote it tricked my brain enough to make me think that this could have been a real event. Michael Crichton for “bringing light to the original events of the Wildfire team in The Andromeda Strain. It goes on to thank people that “survived the event and provided detail about it” to Wilson along with thanking the late, great Dr. It’s basically written as a full-on thank you to a bunch of people who helped with the creation and research of the book. This is a meticulously crafted adventure story, packed with action, mystery, wonder, and just enough hard science to scare the hell out of you.The introduction (written as an acknowledgement) of this story had me questioning my deep knowledge of Crichton and the first novel. Wilson has taken up Crichton's mantle and reinvented the techno-thriller, by continuing the tale that invented that genre. ' The Andromeda Evolution is both a kick-ass sequel and a loving tribute to one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written. The book is a collaboration between CrichtonSun and author Daniel H. Now, a new generation of Project Wildfire scientists must race to understand the Andromeda Strain and destroy it before it sets off an unprecedented worldwide catastrophe. But when a bizarre anomaly appears without warning, the team discovers the tell-tale chemical signature of the deadly microparticle. In the ensuing decades, a group assigned to track and identify any trace of the microbe has seen no sign of Andromeda. With its ability to mutate suddenly and adapt to any environment, the organism threatened to annihilate all human life from the planet. The two survivors and the fallen satellite were taken to an underground laboratory code-named Project Wildfire-a top-secret emergency response protocol headed by the nation's most elite scientists, who quickly isolated an extraterrestrial organism they dubbed the Andromeda Strain.

Half a century ago, a military satellite was knocked out of orbit and fell to Earth in northern Arizona, bringing with it a hostile microbe that nearly wiped out an entire town.

'Both a kick-ass sequel and a loving tribute to one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written.' Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One.įifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name - and spawned a new genre, the technothriller - the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant.

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