The listing, Andromeda strain by Michael Crichton has ended.
Written while Michael Crichton was still in medical school, The Andromeda Strain caused an immediate sensation: partly because the author was still in his twenties; partly because it focused on a biological crisis when most people were thinking about nuclear crises; and partly because of the cool, non-fiction tone it adopted to tell its story. Many people wrote to ask if the book was true. The author became a celebrity.