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Essay Archive - The Andromeda Strain: Summary
The Andromeda Strain: Summary
The book I read was Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain. It is a science
fiction story about an outbreak of a deadly airborne virus. The virus came
from an experimental satellite named Scoop VII. The satellite landed in a
small town in northwestern Arizona named Piedmont. There were only 2
survivors out of forty-eight, an old person and an infant. There are four
main characters who study the virus. They are Jeremy Stone, Peter Levitt,
Charles Burton, and Mark Hall.
It all starts out when a team of five prominent biophysicists give the
United States gov....
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