Word: andromeda
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Indeed, Armageddon is something of a growth industry. In an avalanche of recent books, polar caps melt, a new ice age begins, the oceans disappear, the ozone level is destroyed, terrorists touch off a nuclear war, astronauts bring back a deadly Andromeda Strain. Destruction may also come from a maddened god (Gore Vidal's Kalki). Or in an unending snowstorm (George Stone's Blizzard). Or from the scorching "greenhouse effect" of too much CO2 in the atmosphere (Arthur Herzog's Heat). Or through global political disintegration (The Third World War: August 1985 by a group of English...
Michael Crichton, physician, author (The Andromeda Strain) and director (Coma): "I think we can all agree that American medicine, the way it is now, is not successful. But there's no evidence that the Government can run anything. If you like the Post Office, you'll like socialized medicine...
...time 'The Andromeda Strain' was published, I was in my last year and I figured they were right--I might as well finish and get the degree," he added...
Crichton, author of best-selling novels "The Andromeda Strain" and "The Terminal Man," directed "Coma" after writing the screen-play based on the novel by Robin Cook...
...published "The Andromeda Strain" in his last year at the Medical School. He had already published six other novels, five under the alias John Lange and one under the alias Jeffrey Hudson...