First published fifty years back, The Andromeda Strain redefined the science fiction genre, and immediately established Michael Crichton among the brightest voices in contemporary literature worldwide.

‘I love anything Michael Crichton creates.’–Stephen King

A armed forces space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms through the upper atmosphere, is knocked away of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles in the crash site, an inexplicable and dangerous phenomenon terrorizes the residents of about The Andromeda Strain a sleepy desert city in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an older addict and a new baby infant.

The United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency response protocol. Four of the nation’s most top notch biophysicists are summoned to a clandestine underground laboratory located five stories beneath the desert and installed with an computerized atomic self-destruction system for instances of irremediable contaminants. Under circumstances of total news blackout and the most urgency, the scientists race to comprehend and support the crisis. However the Andromeda Stress proves not the same as anything they’ve ever seen-and what they don’t understand could not only hurt them, but result in unprecedented world-wide catastrophe.