In its first form, A1 it’s lethal to life. Built by some alien race, it’s a means of killing off competitors. Another scientist dies but the rest make it to the elevator platform.īut Stone Jr. She attempts to kill them remotely with Andromeda but they enter the superstructure. Having learned how to manipulate and build with the Andromeda microparticle, she has grown the world’s first space elevator with the base station below and the ISS above as the orbital anchor.

Surprise though, their team member in the ISS is the mastermind behind this. They climb inside the tower to find of all things a generator plant has been built by a German team here, and a second even bigger tower has just grown out of a nearby lake. A young hunter made an orphan by the attack joins the team, now reduced only to the scientists. They’re attacked by indigenous hunters driven mad by the strain of Andromeda they find there as they get closer to the tower. The team along with soldiers, and local porters penetrates the jungle, searching for signs of infection. One of the scientists is a last minute addition, is the adopted son of Stone, Who is also the lone survivor of Piedmont AZ and the first Andromeda event. A multinational team goes to the jungle, and is joined by a member stationed on the ISS overseeing the mission, with a dedicated module set up as the Wildfire base in orbit. The station registers a huge object rising several hundred meters above the canopy of the Amazon that is composed out of the Andromeda microparticles.įor the first time in over half a century a second Wildfire team is dispatched to investigate.

Shades of the 7-11 debacle from the first book. The story starts with a detector station, looking for an Andromeda outbreak, accidentally missing a detection of it because of a post-it on the monitor. Well I’ll admit if I were to think of a sequel this wouldn’t have been it, but on the other hand it does a pretty good job expanding the setting and the possible origins of the Andromeda microparticle, and weirdly enough hits some real cyberpunk/Shadowrun vibes at times. It came out a few weeks ago and I devoured it while at work. So imagine the surprise on finding out that someone has written a sequel some 50+ years later that revisits the world touched by Andromeda.

Other than an updated miniseries a few years ago I thought it was pretty much done in pop culture. It was the first time I was introduced to science fiction mystery, that had (for the Seventies) mostly plausible science, and outlined what the story called a Science Crisis. Growing up, The Andromeda Strain was one of my favourite books and movies.

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