TY  - BOOK
AU  - Michael Crichton
TI  - The Andromeda Strain
SN  - 9780060541811
AV  - PS3553.R48 
U1  - 813.54 
PY  - 2003///
PB  - Avon
KW  - Fantasy
N2  - 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
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