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The Andromeda Evolution
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name—and spawned a new genre, the technothriller—the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant.
The Evolution is Coming.
In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle—designated The Andromeda Strain—killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. In the moments before a catastrophic nuclear detonation, they succeeded.
In the ensuing decades, research on the microparticle continued. And the world thought it was safe…
Deep inside Fairchild Air Force Base, Project Eternal Vigilance has continued to watch and wait for the Andromeda Strain to reappear. On the verge of being shut down, the project has registered no activity—until now. A Brazilian terrain-mapping drone has detected a bizarre anomaly of otherworldly matter in the middle of the jungle, and, worse yet, the tell-tale chemical signature of the deadly microparticle.
With this shocking discovery, the next-generation Project Wildfire is activated, and a diverse team of experts hailing from all over the world is dispatched to investigate the potentially apocalyptic threat.
But the microbe is growing—evolving. And if the Wildfire team can’t reach the quarantine zone, enter the anomaly, and figure out how to stop it, this new Andromeda Evolution will annihilate all life as we know it.
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Reviews
Seemed too far fetched, to disconnected from the original work.
By gonzoid
This is the second book in the series but except for the name of the strain of the biohazard and one of the main characters connected to the 1st book there is no relationship between the two interesting plot
By Dunes 1969
This is emphatically not — in any way — a novel by Michael Crichton, even though the publisher has spread Crichton’s name across half the cover and then put it, brazenly, on the title page as well. This book can’t even claim to be based upon any sketches, notes, or napkin scribbles the author made for any kind of sequel to his Andromeda Strain. I confess to buying it with fond hopes, but am saddened (and a bit angry) to say after reading it that it’s a thoroughly bad book; one that (as the reader learns in the closing pages) was in fact apparently a collaborative effort, put together by a writer who was selected after Crichton’s death by his (fifth) wife, whom he had married in his final years. (In an afterword, Sherri Crichton thanks writer Daniel H. Wilson for his “collaborative spirit,” and writes of “collaborat[ing] with” him on it. Wilson was, as it happens, not even born until several years after The Andromeda Strain was published.) And while Mr. Wilson may know something of robotics, he does not possess Crichton’s Harvard medical background; and the Andromeda Strain is, of course, a fictional meditation upon a *biological* crisis, not a robotical one. The book begins with some promise, as Wilson apes some of Crichton’s pseudo-documentary style; but Wilson has, alas, neither Crichton’s literary skills nor his psychological grasp of humans and their limitations. As this lamentable book progresses, it resembles Crichton less and less, and becomes more and more Edgar Rice Burroughs of the feverish “Barsoom" pulp stories, until finally our cartoonish super-hero protagonist is zipping up (and then down) a space elevator to battle a humanoid mutant in outer space. Hmm. Mr. Wilson writes of how his sequel “unfolded along the same fault lines of human hubris” as The Andromeda Strain. He should have quietly refolded those fault lines and instead studied the mirror for the fount of “human hubris.” Avoid.
By macsperkins
Refreshing to read hard science fiction done well. Nice plot twist and well written. Worthy of a higher price.
By Outtograss
Too scientific and abstract
By ladybug725