Read The Andromeda Strain Online
Authors: Michael Crichton
Tags: #Thrillers, #Science Fiction, #Suspense, #High Tech, #Fiction
FIRST VINTAGE EBOOKS EDITION, MAY 2012
Copyright ©1969 by Centesis
Copyright © 1988 by Michael Crichton
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, in 1969, and simultaneously in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Limited, London. Subsequently published in Great Britain by Arrow, a division of Random House Limited, London, in 1993.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Vintage eISBN: 978-0-307-81641-2
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Day 1 - Contact
1 - The Country of Lost Borders
2 - Vandenberg
3 - Crisis
4 - Alert
Day 2 - Piedmont
5 - The Early Hours
6 - Piedmont
7 - “An Unusual Process”
8 - Directive 7–12
9 - Flatrock
10 - Stage I
11 - Decontamination
Day 3 - Wildfire
12 - The Conference
13 - Level V
14 - Miscellaneous
15 - Main Control
16 - Autopsy
17 - Recovery
18 - The Noon Conference
19 - Crash
20 - Routine
21 - The Midnight Conference
Day 4 - Spread
22 - The Analysis
23 - Topeka
24 - Evaluation
25 - Willis
26 - The Seal
27 - Scared to Death
28 - The Test
29 - Three Minutes
Day 5 - Resolution
30 - The Last Day
Epilogue
References
The survival value of human intelligence has never been satisfactorily demonstrated.
JEREMY STONE
Increasing vision is increasingly expensive.
R. A. JANEK
ANDROMEDA STRAIN
ANDROMEDA STRAIN
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