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020			_a0345378482
040			_aBSOP
041			_aEnglish
050			_aFIC _aC86a _a1969
100			_aCrichton, Michael
245			_aThe Andromeda Strain / _cMichael Crichton.
264			_aNew York, USA: _bBallantine Books, _c1993
300			_a285p. ; _c17cm.
440			_aThe Andromeda Strain
520			_aThe 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 outer fringes 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.
650			_aScience Fiction, Thriller, Horror
942			_2lcc _cBK
999			_c53971 _d53971