The Andromeda Strain - Rilegato

Crichton, Michael

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0394415256 ISBN 13: 9780394415253

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1969

Riassunto

A trained scientist writes a technical narrative, centering on various scientific issues, which recounts a 5-day major space-age crisis

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L'autore:

Michael Crichton was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942. He was educated at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

ook 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 laborator

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0394415256
• ISBN 13: 9780394415253
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida