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  The Andromeda Strain

  by Michael Crichton

  Five prominent biophysicists give the United States government an urgent warning by: sterilization procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, Project Scoop sends seventeen satellites into the fringes of space in order to 'collect organisms and dust for study.' Then a probe satellite falls to the earth,... (more)