Word: andromedae
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...Andromeda Strain, Crichton...
...FICTION 1. The Godfather, Puzo (2 last week) 2. The Love Machine, Susann(l) 3. Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (3) 4. The Andromeda Strain, Crichton (4) 5. The Pretenders, Davis (5) 6. Ada, Nabokov (6) 7. Naked Came the Stranger, Ashe (7) 8. Except for Me and Thee, West (10) 9. The Goodbye Look, Macdonald (8) 10. The Death Committee, Gordon
...Andromeda Strain, Crichton...
This novel's other basic appeal is much more telling. The Andromeda Strain is not really science-fiction in any strict sense. The "science" it treats is too commonplace--even if sophisticated--and it isn't really that speculative. Instead, this book represents a kind of "government-fiction"--the most recent development in the genre of the Washington Novel...
...complex that mayors now must have advisors to learn how to cope with it. Alan Drury's melodramas soon gave way to the Burdick-Fletcher-Knebel potboilers that always had Washington a button away from nuclear destruction--unbeknownst to us all. Dr. Strangelove was the logical extension. Well, The Andromeda Strain is its biological brother. By mixing fact with Crichton's only too probable fantasy, his novel locates itself in a never-never world of secret government installations. It is the revelation of purported government secrets that make the book so compelling. For example, if a contaminated satellite falls within...