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Jan. 25, 2013
The Book Club Catches 'The Andromeda Strain'
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This month, the book club discusses Michael Crichton's 1969 best-selling science fiction thriller The Andromeda Strain. Writer Richard Preston joins the club to talk about Crichton's writing style, and what it was like to work on Crichton's unfinished final manuscript, Micro.
The video below is the original trailer for the 1971 movie based on The Andromeda Strain.
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Produced by Annette Heist, Senior Producer
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Flora Lichtman
Correspondent and Managing Editor, Video
NPR's Science Friday
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Annette Heist
Senior Producer
NPR's Science Friday
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Richard Preston
Author, "The Hot Zone" (Anchor, 1995)
Co-author with Michael Crichton, "Micro: A Novel" (HarperCollins, 2011)
Princeton, New Jersey
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