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Essay Archive - Summary of The Andromeda Strain by Crichton
Summary of The Andromeda Strain by Crichton
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton is a science fiction book
about the fictional 'first crisis' in the biological field. The book
starts out by pointing out that technology is growing so rapidly, there is
bound to be crises, like Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and how the
biological field of science has never had a major crisis. He also points
out that biology is the youngest of all the fields, and a crisis has been
long overdue.
It begins with what is known as Project Scoop, a scientific mission to
find life in the extreme....
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