![]() First edition of Michael Crichtons first book written under his own name. Directed with clinical precision by Academy Award winner Robert Wise, this compelling account of the earths first biological crisis is perhaps the most chil. The Andromeda Strain (1969) Amita Basu Book review The Andromeda Strain (1969) An exciting premise, with clear and detailed accounts of (what was then) cutting-edge science, but the action lags, and ultimately everything in the novel feels pointless. That was left to the experts, and pilots who forgot this, who became too interested in what they were photgraphing, got into trouble. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. One of the first rules of air reconnaisssance was "Ignore the scenery" analysis and evaluation were not the job of the pilot. And then he was up, still climbing, bringing the plane around in a slow arc, preparing for the descent into his second run and trying not to think of what he and seen. ![]() He saw bodies, bodies everywhere, spreadeagled, lying in the streets, across cars. He had a fleeting glimpse of the main street. For a long moment he continued to fall, and then he shoved the stick forward, and the plane seemed to catch in the air, to grasp, and lift and climb. He pressed the camera buttons and felt, rather than heard, the vibrating whir of the cameras. ![]() Below him, the area around the town was lighted for hundreds of yards in every direction. He dropped his nose, cracked down his flaps, and felt a shudder as the plane sank sickeningly, like a stone, toward the ground. "All yours, Gunner." Wilson did not answer. ![]()
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