The possibility of an alien pandemic that threatens Earth’s entire population with near instant death or insanity is definitely page-turning material. Meeting with a disease is an original one, that seems obvious in hindsight in a satisfying kind of way. This is an interesting and thought provoking topic, and science fiction is undoubtedly filled with contact books, speculating on an entire range of scenarios. Merely the basic premise – an emergency team handling the outbreak of an alien microbe – commands us to think for a moment how complicated indeed First Contact would be with any extraterrestrial race. On the other hand, at the end, you’ll sort of want those seven hours back.Ĭrichton wrote a very engrossing and thrilling book. On the one hand, it’s a page turner you’ll have to take care not to tear the pages as you blaze through them faster than the speed of sound. That is “The Andromeda Strain” by Michael Crichton, for the better and worse of that statement.
Do you know that feeling where you say to yourself “I’ll just check out this article on wikipedia” and then five hours later when you finally raise your head from the screen and gasp for air after having dredged half the the internet you cannot help but wonder “where the hell did seven hours go?!”?
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