![]() ![]() ![]() The team is taken with the downed satellite to a top-secret, one-of-a-kind, high-tech laboratory built several floors below ground in the Nevada desert, complete with a nuclear bomb as a last-resort containment method.Įxploring Piedmont remotely, the scientists discover something they thought impossible - a survivor! While investigating in person (in hazmat suits, of course) they find a second survivor, a colicky baby. The threat level is such that the United States government executes the "Wildfire Protocol," immediately drafting scientists from a pre-determined list to stop the spread of an assumed pathogen. The soldiers sent to recover the lost satellite barely have time to radio in the horrifying discovery in Piedmont - that the entire population is dead - before they die themselves, positioned almost as though they had been frozen in place. When a satellite sent to explore the Earth's atmosphere to collect dust and organisms falls from the sky, it lands in the desolate town of Piedmont, Arizona. The danger posed by man's advancing technology - or his quest for knowledge - outweighing his wisdom is at the heart of the earliest and many of the greatest sci-fi stories. Originally published in 1969, Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain is an excellent example of the hard-science sub-genre of science fiction. ![]()
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