It also has an unrealistically high mortality rate, killing almost everybody within a few minutes of exposure. It’s not a bacteria, either, or a prion all we really know is that it’s hexagonal. For one thing, the Andromeda Strain isn’t a virus. A crack team of brainy guys are gathered to figure out how to react and things almost go very, very wrong.Īs a guide to the present, it has lots of problems. In a nutshell, the story concerns a super-deadly infection that evolved in low-Earth orbit and was brought down as part of Cold War efforts to find new bioweapons. “It’s not a home run in terms of what we’re experiencing in 2020,” she said, putting it mildly.
She said the book has lessons to teach us, but not the medical or techy ones you might expect. Eggers what she thought about Andromeda Strain, which she hadn’t read previously. Jennifer Eggers, a physician and public health expert who also teaches at NHTI, will be there to keep us scientifically grounded.
I’m there representing the unwashed masses Concord City Councilor Byron Champlin is representing government response NHTI sociology professor Neil Nevins, who owns Main Street BookEnds in Warner, will ponder the literary and ethical side of things and Dr. Wednesday’s session has quite a mixed panel. (Today’s science fiction still loves geeky details but no longer regards white males as the only plausible characters. It’s chock-full of geeky details about interesting stuff, including several probability tables involving something called the Odd Man Hypothesis it has clumsy but not painfully bad writing and there’s hardly a female or non-white person to be seen. The Andromeda Strain has all the characteristics of 1969 science fiction. That takes place Wednesday evening at 7 (Zoom ID is 95849047229) on Thursday at 7 will be a general book discussion via Zoom. I’ll be part of an online panel discussion about what the book does, and does not, tell us about our current pandemic. Why mention this bit of literary ancient history, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year? Because The Andromeda Strain is the topic of NHTI’s book club, known as Campus Reads. It made Crichton internationally famous, although now he’s better known for Jurassic Park. The Andromeda Strain was the first book by Michael Crichton and it was a sensation, breaking into best-seller lists at a time when science fiction was usually confined to the edges. It had a much better name, however – The Andromeda Strain – and it was much deadlier. Back when I was in middle school a lot of people were talking about a disastrous infection that had come out of an exotic place and was threatening millions of people, just like COVID-19.
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