Sentences with phrase «andromeda strain»

When we wrote about Toxic Drywall Rotting Houses, Sickening Occupants in Florida a few weeks ago I thought it would become a big story: Houses being built with drywall that makes metal corrode and people sick, like a scene out of the Andromeda Strain.

Or: ask a biologist what he thinks of The Andromeda Strain or Jurassic Park (Crichton doesn't know much about biology).

Michael Crichton, MD, author (The Andromeda Strain (1969), Jurassic Park (1990), and many others) on consensus and science (1/27/2003 at Caltech):

Crichton's novels include «Jurassic Park,» «The Andromeda Strain,» «The Great Train Robbery,» «Eaters of the Dead,» «Congo,» «Sphere,» «Rising Sun,» Disclosure,» «The Lost World,» «Airframe,» «Timeline,» «Prey,» «Next,» «State of Fear,» and the posthumously published «Pirate Latitudes» and «Micro.»

I read three of his novels (Andromeda Strain, Sphere, and Jurassic Park) and enjoyed each of them, right up until the last thirty pages or so.

Written while Michael Crichton was still in medical school, The Andromeda Strain caused an immediate sensation: partly because the author was still in his twenties; partly because it focused on a biological crisis when most people were thinking about nuclear crises; and partly because of the cool, non-fiction tone it adopted to tell its story.

I really enjoyed Andromeda strain, it got me interested in microbiology (in spite of the now obvious flaws in the science and engineering).

His first novel, The Andromeda Strain, published the year he finished medical school, became an international best - seller.

The Andromeda Strain, his first bestseller, was published under his own name.

The movie rights for The Andromeda Strain were bought in February of his senior year at Harvard Medical School.

One of Jasper Johns» biggest fans, and friend, was author Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain).

Michael Crichton was the mega-selling thriller writer behind «Jurassic Park,» «The Andromeda Strain» and the TV series «ER.»

This is all inspired by the 1970s science fiction film The Andromeda Strain, and by synthetic biology's potential to create artificial organisms, leading to a scenario of possible new lifeforms and lifestyles.

The popular writer of such blockbuster thrillers as «Jurassic Park,» «The Andromeda Strain» and the TV series «ER» died in 2008.

Clockwise from top left: Two scenes from the 1970 film version of The Andromeda Strain, Bird Flu investigations in Asia and the Anthrax scare in Washington D.C..

The Andromeda Strain stands as the first popular work to alert the public to the growing power of biological science, and to hint that biology would eventually replace physics and nuclear technology as a source of public concern and interest.

Sure, he's done dinosaurs and television emergency rooms, but Michael Crichton's first novel, The Andromeda Strain (1969), still ranks as one of the top science fiction thrillers of all time.

Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain.

Obviously, it's a problem taking cues from the covers of Michael Crichton novels, because the most important element on those covers is the big name «MICHAEL CRICHTON,» but let's take a look at the «medical thriller» category, where you'd find such novels as The Andromeda Strain:

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It was education you couldn't get in film school and he continued to expand his skills and techniques in such films as The Andromeda Strain, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

You obviously expect less from a film by Mikael Salomon, the Swedish cinematographer of such Hollywood films as James Cameron's The Abyss, Steven Spielberg's Always, and Ron Howard's Backdraft, whose subsequent directing career has consisted almost entirely of lesser genre television (like A&E's 2008 «The Andromeda Strain» miniseries and Lifetime's Drew Peterson: Untouchable).

It's «Contagion» or «The Andromeda Strain,» but with zombies, and without much panache.

And with its kaleidoscopic Douglas Trumbull effects and its trippy score by Gil Mellé, not to mention Wise's own stylistic gambits (lots of split screens), The Andromeda Strain takes on an amusing artifact quality.

Adapted from the first novel written by Michael Crichton under his real name, The Andromeda Strain combined the technology of science fiction with 1970s paranoia into a compelling, but occasionally slow - paced film directed by Robert Wise.

Fueled by paranoia that an out of control government was intent on harming civilians — an irrational fear that has never gone away — The Andromeda Strain may have been a product of its time, drug - induced climax and all, but remains interesting viewing today.

Robert Wise, the «I Can Do Any Genre» Director who brought us The Haunting, The Andromeda Strain, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, and was even editor of Citizen Kane, could also, sadly, helm -LSB-...]

They include such things as nuclear destruction from Return to the Planet of the Apes and Godzilla to space microbes as in The Andromeda Strain.

With a large amount of money going to set design and computer graphics, and given the cerebral nature of the storyline, The Andromeda Strain would be a risky venture for the producers, especially given that there are no big stars attached.

Robert Wise's «The Andromeda Strain» works reasonably well as science fiction, but I don't want to approach it in a fiction mood today.

These fears haven't gone away, making The Andromeda Strain a worthwhile story for today's viewers, so long as you can overlook the dated aspects of the technology of the time it was made.

It's actually surprising to many of his colleagues he didn't do more, though he did direct The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Andromeda Strain.

Wise is a filmmaker you even if you don't: West Side Story, The Sound of Music, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Andromeda Strain, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Lot's of borrowing here from previous and better films like Andromeda Strain, Her, 2001: A Space Odessy and Brainstorm.

We also get a zombies - on - a-plane episode and a tense foray into the terrain of «The Stand» or «The Andromeda Strain» in a zombie - infested medical laboratory where Gerry and a buzz - cut, one - handed female Israeli soldier (the terrific Daniella Kertesz) must search for the highly implausible secret MacGuffin that will fix everything.

Acidity is necessary to prevent illness — think «Andromeda Strain» here.

«Could we be looking at an Andromeda Strain scenario here?»

Many of us who became scientists may credit documentary series like Cosmos and Hollywood movies such as The Andromeda Strain for sparking our interest in science.

Actually, that's only half her job, which is to ensure that outgoing missions to places that might be capable of harboring life don't get contaminated with Earth microbes, and to ensure that any missions to far - off places don't bring back the real - life version of the Andromeda strain.

Not exact matches

Tomorrow in San Francisco, Google is expected to announce the release of a new strain of operating system code - named «Andromeda.»