The Andromeda Strain

Five prominent biophysicists give the United States govenment an urgent warning: sterilization procedures of returning space probes many be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated reentry to the atmosphere. Two years later, Project Scoop sends seventeen satellites into the fringes of space in order to "collect organisms and dust for study."Then a probe satellite falls to the earth, landing in a desolate area of northeastern Arizona. In the nearby town of Piedmont, bodies lie heaped and flung across the ground, faced locked in frozen surprise. The terror has begun ...

Five prominent biophysicists give the United States govenment an urgent warning: sterilization procedures of returning space probes many be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated reentry to the atmosphere. Two years later, Project Scoop sends seventeen satellites into the fringes of space in order to "collect organisms and dust for study."Then a probe satellite falls to the earth, landing in a desolate area of northeastern Arizona. In the nearby town of Piedmont, bodies lie heaped and flung across the ground, faced locked in frozen surprise. The terror has begun ...