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THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN: BOOK SUMMARY / BOOK REVIEW
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At his home, Arthur Mancek receives a telephone call concerning the
recent crash of a training mission near Big Head, Utah. The plane left
San Francisco heading for Topeka, strayed off course, and flew through
Area WF (The Piedmont zone) before crashing. Mancek wonders why they didn’t
drop the bomb on that town, and why the Wildfire team didn’t protest the..........
Finally, the lack of communication between Wildfire and the outside
world begins to be noticed. Mancek is wondering why no one has protested
the decision not to drop the bomb. Again, we know that Wildfire has
not received any outside messages but Mancek does not. We also can guess
what has been eating the..........
In the spectrometer room, Burton vaporizes a piece of the black rock
and a piece of the green flecks in order to determine the elemental composition
of each. Each element produces a different specter of light, and this
data can be fed into the computer and analyzed. In another room, Leavitt
is feeding the rock and organism into the amino-acid analyzer, trying
to figure out what...........
Crichton introduces two more variables. While they do not represent
errors in planning, they are still emblematic of the frailties that ............
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