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Sci Fi Focus > Encyclopedia > Michael Crichton > The Andromeda Strain
Our Rating: 3.5 out of 5
In a nutshell:
Film based on the Michael Crichton novel of the same name: scientists must save the world from a deadly threat.
Plot Synopsis (may include spoilers):
A satellite falls to Earth and brings back with it a deadly alien virus. Scientists enter race against time to understand the virus and stop it spreading.
Best Bits:
- Interesting premise
- Well cast
- Genuinely suspenseful
- A movie which respects the viewers' intelligence
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The Andromeda Strain
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 | Featuring Arthur Hill, James Olson & Paula Kelly Universal Studios Released: 2003-04-01 DVD
Product Description: ANDROMEDA STRAIN - DVD Movie List Price: $14.98* Lowest New Price: $7.84* Lowest Used Price: $5.78* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 11:54 Pacific 10 Feb 2012 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | Featuring Arthur Hill, James Olson & Paula Kelly Image Entertainment Released: 1998-01-28 DVD Description: When a satellite falls to earth near a remote New Mexico village, the recovery team finds everyone in the area dead except an infant and an old derelict. The survivors are brought to a five-story underground lab, where scientists attempt to determine the nature of the deadly microbe before it starts a world-wide epidemic. From the novel by Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park). List Price: $14.99* Lowest New Price: $18.98* Lowest Used Price: $9.78* *(As of 11:54 Pacific 10 Feb 2012 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | Directed by Robert Wise Featuring James Olson, David Wayne & Paula Kelly DVD Lowest New Price: $4.73* Lowest Used Price: $4.73* *(As of 11:54 Pacific 10 Feb 2012 More Info) Buy It Now |
![Andromeda Strain [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M29A10DWL._SL160_.jpg) | Directed by Robert Wise Featuring James Olson, David Wayne & Paula Kelly Universal Studios Released: 1996-08-06 VHS Tape Amazon.com: The best-selling novel by Michael Crichton was faithfully adapted for this taut 1971 thriller, about a team of scientists racing against time to destroy a deadly alien virus that threatens to wipe out life on Earth. As usual with any Crichton-based movie, the emphasis is on an exciting clash between nature and science, beginning when virologists discover the outer-space virus in a tiny town full of corpses. Projecting total contamination, the scientists isolate the deadly strain in a massive, high-tech underground lab facility, which is rigged for nuclear destruction if the virus is not successfully controlled. The movie spends a great deal of time covering the scientific procedures of the high-pressure investigation, and the rising tensions between scientists who have been forced to work in claustrophobic conditions. It's all very fascinating if you're interested in scientific method and technological advances, although the film is obviously dated in many of its details. It's more effective as a thriller in which tension is derived not only from the deadly threat of the virus, but from the escalating fear and anxiety among the small group of people who've been assigned to save the human race. The basic premise is still captivating; it's easy to see how this became the foundation of Crichton's science-thriller empire. --Jeff Shannon List Price: $6.99* Lowest New Price: $6.42* Lowest Used Price: $1.86* Usually ships in 1-2 business days* *(As of 11:54 Pacific 10 Feb 2012 More Info) Buy It Now |
| | Directed by Robert Wise Featuring James Olson, David Wayne & Paula Kelly VHS Tape Lowest Used Price: $3.40* *(As of 11:54 Pacific 10 Feb 2012 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | By Michael Crichton Avon Released: 2003-10-28 Mass Market Paperback (368 pages) Product Description: The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outerfringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont,a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town's inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks. List Price: $7.99* Lowest New Price: $3.77* Lowest Used Price: $0.01* *(As of 11:54 Pacific 10 Feb 2012 More Info) Buy It Now |
| | By Michael Crichton Buccaneer Books Hardcover Product Description: "This book recounts the five-day history of a major American scientific crisis. As in most crises, the events surrounding the Andromeda Strain were a compound of foresight and foolishness, innocence and ignorance. Nearly everyone involved had moments of great brilliance, and moments of unaccountable stupidity...." Thus begins this extraordinary novel of the world's first space-age biological emergency. The Andromeda Strain sets forth with almost documentary verisimilitude the unfolding story of "Project Wildfire" -- the crash mobilization of the nation's highest scientific and medical resources when an unmanned research satellite returns to earth mysteriously and lethally contaminated. Four American scientists, chosen in advance for their experimental achievements in the fields of clinical microbiology, epidemiology, pathology, and electrolyte chemistry, are summoned under conditions of total news blackout and utmost urgency to Wildfire's secret laboratory five stories beneath the Nevada desert. There -- surrounded by banks of the most sophisticated computer-assisted equipment, and sealed off from the outside world except for a telecommunications link with the national security apparatus -- they work against the threat of a worldwide epidemic to find an antidote to the unknown microorganism that has inexplicably killed all but two inhabitants (an elderly derelict and an infant) of the tiny Arizona town where the satellite was retrieved. Step by step they begin to unravel the puzzle of the Andromeda Strain, until, terrifyingly, their microbacterial "adversary" ruptures the hypersterile seal of the laboratory and their already desperate search for a biomedical answer becomes a split-second race against an atomic deadline. With its narrative force, its scientific detail, its suspense -- as four brilliant individualists work together under ultimate pressure -- this novel makes real for the reader the real world of today's science and medicine at the top-secret levels of the Science-Space-Military high command. The author is a trained scientist. Newspaper stories from NASA that have appeared since the completion of the manuscript read like details from The Andromeda Strain... From the Hardcover edition. List Price: $21.95* Lowest Used Price: $33.95* *(As of 11:54 Pacific 10 Feb 2012 More Info) Buy It Now |
| | By Michael Crichton Topeka Bindery Library Binding Product Description: "This book recounts the five-day history of a major American scientific crisis. As in most crises, the events surrounding the Andromeda Strain were a compound of foresight and foolishness, innocence and ignorance. Nearly everyone involved had moments of great brilliance, and moments of unaccountable stupidity...." Thus begins this extraordinary novel of the world's first space-age biological emergency. The Andromeda Strain sets forth with almost documentary verisimilitude the unfolding story of "Project Wildfire" -- the crash mobilization of the nation's highest scientific and medical resources when an unmanned research satellite returns to earth mysteriously and lethally contaminated. Four American scientists, chosen in advance for their experimental achievements in the fields of clinical microbiology, epidemiology, pathology, and electrolyte chemistry, are summoned under conditions of total news blackout and utmost urgency to Wildfire's secret laboratory five stories beneath the Nevada desert. There -- surrounded by banks of the most sophisticated computer-assisted equipment, and sealed off from the outside world except for a telecommunications link with the national security apparatus -- they work against the threat of a worldwide epidemic to find an antidote to the unknown microorganism that has inexplicably killed all but two inhabitants (an elderly derelict and an infant) of the tiny Arizona town where the satellite was retrieved. Step by step they begin to unravel the puzzle of the Andromeda Strain, until, terrifyingly, their microbacterial "adversary" ruptures the hypersterile seal of the laboratory and their already desperate search for a biomedical answer becomes a split-second race against an atomic deadline. With its narrative force, its scientific detail, its suspense -- as four brilliant individualists work together under ultimate pressure -- this novel makes real for the reader the real world of today's science and medicine at the top-secret levels of the Science-Space-Military high command. The author is a trained scientist. Newspaper stories from NASA that have appeared since the completion of the manuscript read like details from The Andromeda Strain... From the Hardcover edition. List Price: $12.27* Lowest Used Price: $16.58* *(As of 11:54 Pacific 10 Feb 2012 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | By Michael Crichton Random House Audio Price-less Released: 2004-05-04 Audio CD Product Description: "Relentlessly suspenseful...A hair-raising experience." THE PITTSBURGH PRESS The United States government stands warned that sterilization procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. When a probe satellite falls to the earth two years later, and lands in a desolate area of northeastern Arizona, the bodies that lie heaped and flung across the ground, have faces locked in frozen surprise. The terror has begun.... From the Paperback edition. List Price: $14.99* Lowest New Price: $115.68* Lowest Used Price: $9.99* *(As of 11:54 Pacific 10 Feb 2012 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | By Michael Crichton Random House Audio Released: 1994-08-30 Audio Cassette Product Description: The same 3-hour quality performance for less! 2 cassettes / 3 hours Read by Chris North Only $8.99 Here is Michael Crichton at his best with the bestselling classic of modern science battling an interstellar plague The Andromeda Strain sets forth the story of Project Wildfire - the crash mobilization of the nations highest scientific and medical resources when an unmanned research satellite returns to earth mysteriously and lethally contaminated.  Four American scientists are summoned under conditions of total news blackout and utmost urgency to Wildfire's secret laboratory five stories below the Nevada desert.  There - surrounded by the most sophisticated computer equipment, and sealed off from the outside world - they work against the threat of a worldwide epidemic.  Step by step they begin to unravel the puzzle of the Andromeda Strain until, terrifyingly, their microbacterial adversary ruptures the hypersterile seal of the lab and their already desperate search for a biomedical answer becomes a split second race against time. List Price: $8.99* Lowest New Price: $53.86* Lowest Used Price: $0.34* *(As of 11:54 Pacific 10 Feb 2012 More Info) Buy It Now |
 | By Michael Crichton Random House Audio Released: 1993-11-02 Audio Cassette Product Description: "This book recounts the five-day history of a major American scientific crisis. As in most crises, the events surrounding the Andromeda Strain were a compound of foresight and foolishness, innocence and ignorance. Nearly everyone involved had moments of great brilliance, and moments of unaccountable stupidity...." Thus begins this extraordinary novel of the world's first space-age biological emergency. The Andromeda Strain sets forth with almost documentary verisimilitude the unfolding story of "Project Wildfire" -- the crash mobilization of the nation's highest scientific and medical resources when an unmanned research satellite returns to earth mysteriously and lethally contaminated. Four American scientists, chosen in advance for their experimental achievements in the fields of clinical microbiology, epidemiology, pathology, and electrolyte chemistry, are summoned under conditions of total news blackout and utmost urgency to Wildfire's secret laboratory five stories beneath the Nevada desert. There -- surrounded by banks of the most sophisticated computer-assisted equipment, and sealed off from the outside world except for a telecommunications link with the national security apparatus -- they work against the threat of a worldwide epidemic to find an antidote to the unknown microorganism that has inexplicably killed all but two inhabitants (an elderly derelict and an infant) of the tiny Arizona town where the satellite was retrieved. Step by step they begin to unravel the puzzle of the Andromeda Strain, until, terrifyingly, their microbacterial "adversary" ruptures the hypersterile seal of the laboratory and their already desperate search for a biomedical answer becomes a split-second race against an atomic deadline. With its narrative force, its scientific detail, its suspense -- as four brilliant individualists work together under ultimate pressure -- this novel makes real for the reader the real world of today's science and medicine at the top-secret levels of the Science-Space-Military high command. The author is a trained scientist. Newspaper stories from NASA that have appeared since the completion of the manuscript read like details from The Andromeda Strain... From the Hardcover edition. List Price: $17.00* Lowest New Price: $153.66* Lowest Used Price: $1.88* *(As of 11:54 Pacific 10 Feb 2012 More Info) Buy It Now |
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