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 have to admit that I have barely started this book as I am not really liking the narrator's voice/accent in the Audible version and it's making it difficult to concentrate. Instead, I downloaded a copy of the follow on book from Girl With the Louding Voice from last month as I really wanted to know what happened next for Adunni and I've been listening to it every spare moment. I will try again with Andromeda Strain...maybe it was because it was just too hot to concentrate! I've read all the other reviews so far and there seem to be two distinct camps ....those that enjoyed the sciencey stuff...and those that didn't. Maybe it was a book of it's time (a bit like Jaws)?!

    Is there a list of upcoming titles? I seem to recall when I joined that it said 6 months of titles were chosen at a time and I'm sure I've been a member more than 6 months now so presumably the upcoming titles have been chosen? (How are they chosen/by who?) I may not be able to join every month through the summer so don't want to waste resources by books being sent out that I'm unable to read. Many thanks for providing these great clubs 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous 14 days ago

    I have to admit that I have barely started this book as I am not really liking the narrator's voice/accent in the Audible version and it's making it difficult to concentrate. Instead, I downloaded a copy of the follow on book from Girl With the Louding Voice from last month as I really wanted to know what happened next for Adunni and I've been listening to it every spare moment. I will try again with Andromeda Strain...maybe it was because it was just too hot to concentrate! I've read all the other reviews so far and there seem to be two distinct camps ....those that enjoyed the sciencey stuff...and those that didn't. Maybe it was a book of it's time (a bit like Jaws)?!

    Is there a list of upcoming titles? I seem to recall when I joined that it said 6 months of titles were chosen at a time and I'm sure I've been a member more than 6 months now so presumably the upcoming titles have been chosen? (How are they chosen/by who?) I may not be able to join every month through the summer so don't want to waste resources by books being sent out that I'm unable to read. Many thanks for providing these great clubs 

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