Book Club Discussion for The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

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Hello book club members, this month's book, The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton should be with you now... 

Please feel free to share your thoughts on the book here.

A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant.

The United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency response protocol. Four of the nation’s most elite biophysicists are summoned to a clandestine underground laboratory located five stories beneath the desert and fitted with an automated atomic self-destruction mechanism for cases of irremediable contamination. Under conditions of total news blackout and the utmost urgency, the scientists race to understand and contain the crisis. But the Andromeda Strain proves different from anything they’ve ever seen - and what they don’t know could not only hurt them, but lead to unprecedented worldwide catastrophe.

For kindle readers this book was unavailable and were given a choice of an audible copy or reading Book 2 "The Andromeda Evolution".

We look forward to our next meeting on 20th July starting at 7.30pm on MS Teams.

 

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    Anonymous 14 days ago

    I might not make it tomorrow night as its my daughters Leavers Presentation Evening at School and I have no idea what time I will get home. 

    I enjoyed the book, but I don't think it was exciting as other science fiction, but I can see how in the 1960s it would have been exciting. I just dont think its suited to a 2026 audience. I'm not too sure about the ending, it left quite a few questions open and I wanted to know what happened next and how it was all covered up... I was expecting more of an update on the wider world during the book but that didn't materialise. The narrator of the book did keep me interested by suggesting the scientists had missed something and I was interested to see what they had forgotten and how it turned out. 

    I wasn't aware that the book had been made into a film.. and that's probably a good thing. 

    Score 6 and swim (I can see some of my work colleagues enjoying it) 

    Emma R

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous 14 days ago

    I might not make it tomorrow night as its my daughters Leavers Presentation Evening at School and I have no idea what time I will get home. 

    I enjoyed the book, but I don't think it was exciting as other science fiction, but I can see how in the 1960s it would have been exciting. I just dont think its suited to a 2026 audience. I'm not too sure about the ending, it left quite a few questions open and I wanted to know what happened next and how it was all covered up... I was expecting more of an update on the wider world during the book but that didn't materialise. The narrator of the book did keep me interested by suggesting the scientists had missed something and I was interested to see what they had forgotten and how it turned out. 

    I wasn't aware that the book had been made into a film.. and that's probably a good thing. 

    Score 6 and swim (I can see some of my work colleagues enjoying it) 

    Emma R

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