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The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the... read more
First Sentence
A MAN WITH BINOCULARS.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
I. Day One: Contact
1. The Country of Lost Borders
2. Vandenberg
3. Crisis
4. Alert
II. Day Two: Piedmont
5. The Early Hours
6. Piedmont
7. "An Unusual Process"
8. Directive 7-12
9. Flatrock
10. Stage I
11. Decontamination
III. Day Three: Wildfire
12. The Conference
13. Level V
14. Miscellaneous
15. Main Control
16. Autopsy
17. Recovery
18. The Noon Conference
19. Crash
20. Routine
21. The Midnight Conference
IV. Day Four: Spread
22. The Analysis
23. Topeka
24. Evaluation
25. Willis
26. The Seal
27. Scared To Death
28. The Test
29. Three Minutes
V. Day Five: Resolution
30. The Last Day
31. Epilogue
References
Authors & Contributors
- Michael Crichton (Author)
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