About the book: 1991 / American writer Michael Crichton in the book "The Andromeda Strain" paints a fantastic, but quite plausible picture of our planet being infected by an extraterrestrial bacterial strain as a result the Pentagon's preparations for bacteriological warfare. The responsibility of scientists for the fate of man in an age of rapid development of science - this is precisely the main idea of ​​the novel. In the 1991 edition, the novel “Human Computer” was added to the novel “The Andromeda Strain”».