On the verge of being shut down, the project has registered no activity - until now. And the world thought it was safe.ĭeep inside Fairchild Air Force Base, Project Eternal Vigilance has continued to watch and wait for the Andromeda Strain to reappear.
In the ensuing decades, research on the microparticle continued. In the moments before a catastrophic nuclear detonation, they succeeded. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. Accidental exposure to the particle - designated the Andromeda Strain - killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy. In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Wilson EPUBįifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name - and spawned a new genre, the technothriller - the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant. The Andromeda Evolution by Michael Crichton, Daniel H.
