The Andromeda Strain - Couverture souple

Crichton, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0345378482 ISBN 13 : 9780345378484

Editeur : Ballantine Books, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Crichton Michael

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Five prominent biophysicists give the United States government an urgent warning: sterilisation procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere.
Two years later, Project Scoop sends seventeen satellites into the fringes of space in order to 'collect organisms and dust for study.'
Then a probe satellite falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of northeastern Arizona. In the nearby town of Piedmont, bodies lie heaped and flung across the ground, faces locked in frozen surprise.
The terror has begun...
'He had me convinced it was all really happening'
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, NEW YORK TIMES

'Science fiction, which once frightened because it seemed so far out, now frightens because it seems so near. The Andromeda Strain is as matter-of-fact as the skull-and-crossbones instructions on a bottle of poison - and just as chillingly effective' LIFE

'Terrifying... One of the most important novels of the year'
LIBRARY JOURNAL

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Five prominent biophysicists give the United States government an urgent warning: sterilisation procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, Project Scoop sends seventeen satellites into the fringes of space in order to 'collect organisms and dust for study'.

Then a probe falls to the earth, landing in a desolate area of northeastern Arizona. A little while later, in the nearby town of Piedmont, bodies are discovered heaped and flung across the ground, faces locked in frozen surprise. But the terror has only just begun, because when they try to find the cause of death, the scientists don't realise just what kind of unearthly danger they are dealing with...

Brilliantly filmed by Robert Wise in 1971, The Andromeda Strain was the first book to introduce Michael Crichton's audacious combination of believable plots and white-knuckled excitement to a wide audience.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ballantine Books
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0345378482
• ISBN 13: 9780345378484
• Reliure: Broché