The Andromeda Strain

"I was awake way past my bedtime. My arms were numb from propping up my head . . . I was very likely disturbing my wife's sleep. But I was well into Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain. And he had me convinced it was all really happening."

New York Times

"Michael Crichton has no peer at venturing off to the fringes of scientific research and dreaming up a yarn that will frighten readers."

Orlando Sentinel

"A terrific novelist . . . He could make most readers lose sleep all night and call in sick the next day."

San Francisco Chronicle

"The master of the high-concept techno-thriller . . . he has a facile command for detail in easy-to-grasp metaphors . . . He has a knack for plotting at megahertz speed."

Chicago Sun-Times

"A winner . . . filled with gut-tightening tension."

San Antonio Express-News

Gripping . . . edifying . . . What an amazing imagination."

New York Newsday

"CRICHTON IS A MASTER STORYTELLER"

Detroit News

"Brims with authority, moves at white-hot speed. Disconnect the doorbell, take the phone off the hook. Once you start this gripper of a novel, you'll tolerate no interruption."

Buffalo News(NY)

"[Crichton] has perfected the fusion of thriller with science fiction."

Los Angeles Times Book Review

"He likes to immediately hit readers between the eyes with plots involving breathtaking technology, then keep them on the edge of their litery seats with a breathless series of near-disasters."

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

"Crichton excels at mixing science and storytelling, incorporating the former seamlessly into the latter."

Raleigh News and Observer

"Michael Crichton isn't for scaredy-babies . . . he carouses through the landscape of scientific development, presenting one frightening possibility after another."

New York Daily News

"TERRIFYING."

Library Journal

"Science fiction, which once frightened because it seemed so far out, now frightens because it seems so near. The Andromeda Strain is as matter-of-fact as the skull-and-crossbones instructions on a bottle of poison—and just as chillingly effective."

Life

"Impressive . . . A splendidly proficient craftsman . . . The wellsprings of his curiosity [never] run dry."

Washington Times

"An expert at predicting some of the more troubling aspects of the modern zeitgeist . . . The very possibility of his premise lingers in your imagination. Michael Crichton has become a master at making the incredible credible."

Greensboro News & Record

"Crichton has proven he knows how to rachet up the fear factor."

Denver Post

"He is a master at blending edge-of-the-chair adventure with a scientific seminar, educating his readers as he entertains them."

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"He is without peer."

Chattanooga Times

Books by Michael Crichton

Fiction

THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN

THE TERMINAL MAN

THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY

EATERS OF THE DEAD

CONGO

SPHERE

JURASSIC PARK

RISING SUN

DISCLOSURE

THE LOST WORLD

AIRFRAME

PREY

STATE OF FEAR

NEXT

PIRATE LATITUDES

Nonfiction

FIVE PATIENTS

JASPER JOHNS

ELECTRONIC LIFE

TRAVELS