The Andromeda Strain (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Crichton
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction
- Time of Work: 1967
- Setting: Flatrock, Nevada
- 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
Characters Discussed
Jeremy Stone, a professor of bacteriology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Nobel Prize winner, a lawyer, and a federal government consultant whose paper on the possibilities of a bacterial or viral invasion led to his Project Wildfire, a $22 million underground containment laboratory in the Nevada desert. It is at this laboratory that any extraterrestrial enemy is to be studied and countermeasures developed. Stone’s papers on bacteriology and mutant reversion have led him to be compared to Albert Einstein. His insistence on a nuclear...
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