“The true aims of ‘Scoop’ were to find new life forms that might benefit the Fort Detrick program. Crichton establishes a thrilling plot to emphasize the danger of foreign life on earth and the race to neutralize it.Īnother example of Crichton’s warnings is when he discusses the possible use of this devastatingly bizarre bacterial strain as a potential biological weapon. But they all had one thing in common they all died except for 2 people: an old ‘addict’ and a newborn child. Some people died within seconds, their blood having clotted instantly from the chest outwards, while others were driven to the point of madness, eerie notes left behind then followed by grim suicides. When a space probe, crashes 12 miles from a small town in Arizona, it infects the people with a deadly disease…one that kills in a peculiar way. In ‘The Andromeda Strain’, Crichton established the danger of the alien bacteria by giving a small, but thorough example of what the organism does to people. Crichton leads us through the complexities of how such harmful organisms can be a menace to the human population, yet also how alien bacteria can be put to use through painstakingly long experiments and careful examination of what could possibly be, mankind’s greatest weapon. ‘The Andromeda Strain’ outlines the multitude of possibilities that may arise from human exposure to extraterrestrial life, eventually focusing singularly on one of the most damaging outcomes. The novel, ‘The Andromeda Strain’, written by Michael Crichton, was written as a warning for the dangers of introducing foreign bacteria to the earth.
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