You could probably finish it in an afternoon. In other words, the science makes you feel smarter without trying to impress its intrinsic ‘smartness’ on you the reader. This may not be the best analogy, but perhaps the science feels more like something you’d get from a TED Talk as opposed to a College Biology class. Pulling from his knowledge and experience in the medical field prior to becoming a novelist, the Andromeda Strain feels frighteningly real, but unlike ‘hard sci-fi’ that gets bogged down in a lot of little details and thus becomes almost unreadable… Crichton does a pretty wonderful job in making the science feel accessible. Michael Crichton‘s The Andromeda Strain was not his first book, but perhaps it is the first book that truly launched his career.
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