The Andromeda Strain (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Crichton
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Plot: Scientific adventure
- Time of Work: 1967
- Setting: Flatrock, Nevada
- Principal Characters: Dr. Jeremy Stone, Dr. Peter Leavitt, Dr. Charles Burton, Dr. Mark Hall, Major Arthur Manchek
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: 1960’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Science or scientists, Space ships, stations, or vehicles, West, U.S., Arizona, Southwest, Bacteriology, Diseases, Epidemics, Life, biological, Microbiology, Nevada, Satellites
- Locales: Flatrock, NV
The Novel
Michael Crichton’s enormously popular novel The Andromeda Strain generated much of its appeal first by dramatizing the anxieties of its audience—playing on the “man was never meant to know” fears about space and science—and second by laying those fears to rest by demonstrating that the American doctor is equal to any emergency. The novel was one of the first to use “secret government research projects” as a villain, a device that has been used many times since. The premise of The Andromeda Strain is that a space satellite, the Scoop, has...
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