Andromeda

The Andromeda Strain is a 1969 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton, his first novel under his own name and his sixth novel overall. It is written as a report documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating the outbreak of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism in New Mexico. The Andromeda Strain appeared in the New York Times Best Seller list, establishing Michael Crichton as a genre writer.

This work also contained in:

• The Andromeda Strain / Terminal Man
• The Great Train Robbery / The Andromeda Strain
• Rising Sun / The Andromeda Strain / Binary