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Violence
Barely any
Deaths from the microorganism; the threat of a global pandemic; nothing graphically violent
Language
Barely any
Clean technical prose; the novel is written as a scientific report
Sexual Content
Barely any
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The sustained procedural dread of a team racing against a biological clock they may not be able to beat
What this book is about
A classified military satellite crashes near an Arizona town, leaving only two survivors—an elderly man and an infant. The government's Wildfire team is assembled to contain and understand the Andromeda Strain. Crichton's debut is written as a scientific case study, meticulously procedural and intensely tense.
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