I didn't get the perfection I expected

2 StarsI read some other reviews before writing this. It appears that 9 times out of 10 people liked it okay. Unfortunately, I cannot join them.I thought this was a far fetched, outlandish, unbelievably boring mess. The whole plot is held together by the thinnest of spiderwebs. Most of the time when something happened, I said to myself,"seriously . . . SERIOUSLY!? Ugh *sigh*". Also, it felt like plot points were being randomly generated to move the questionable story along. The only thing I was

Many thanks to HarperCollins for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest review "Run." Holy moly, this book surprised me. I did not expect to be so fascinated and thrilled. So, what's this book about? Years after the events of The Andromeda Strain, deep inside Fairchild Air Force Base, Project Eternal Vigilance has continued to watch and wait for the Andromeda Strain to reappear. On the verge of being shut down, the project has registered no activity—until now. A Brazilian terrai...

This is the sequel to The Andromeda Strain that was written fifty years ago. The rights were sold by Crichton's family as this is written by a different author. In this one, the world is still on the lookout for the Andromeda strain when it suddenly pops up again. Chaos ensues.I am not a huge fan of a different author taking over a universe and this just proves my point. Maybe it is me and I am use to the original author's distinctive voice and I just don't like the change. I would liken this bo...

In these pages you will find the meticulous reconstruction of a five-day scientific crisis that culminated in the near extinction of our species.It is important to recognize up front that the advanced technology that is the hallmark of our modern world was not itself the cause of this crisis—though it exacerbated it. The response to the Andromeda Evolution was unprecedented in its coordination and scientific sophistication. Yet it was this same scientific mastery that enabled tragic errors resul...

Soooo this is a thing??I loved book 1 and I can't wait to read this one too!!

3.5 stars'The Andromeda Evolution' is the sequel to The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton.In The Andromeda Strain, set in 1967, the United States deploys a series of high-altitude unmanned craft to search for weaponizable microparticles in the upper atmosphere. One of the craft crashes to Earth in Piedmont, Arizona, and local residents open the capsule to have a look. The civilians inadvertently release a self-replicating, hexagonal microparticle, eventually named Andromeda Strain-1 (AS-1), t...

3.5 Stars I had read The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton when it was first published 50 years ago I recall liking the book a lot and read most of his subsequent techno-thrillers. We learn that in the decades since, the Andromeda Strain has evolved, mutated, and is replicating. I am glad to see that the author, Daniel Wilson, has managed to replicate the style of his predecessor to a satisfying extent. It took some while for me to become engaged in this story. A structure deep in the Amazon...

THE ANDROMEDA EVOLUTION by Daniel H. Wilson is a science fiction / techno-thriller novel and a sequel to Michael Crichton’s THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN. It can be read as a standalone novel, but it would be beneficial to read Crichton’s novel first. Wilson continues Crichton’s story after approximately 50 years of waiting. Research has continued on the strain and the world thought it was now safe. The watchdog group, Project Eternal Vigilance is on the verge on being shut down when a large formation ap...

“The Andromeda Evolution” genuflects appropriately to "The Andromeda Strain," the 1969 novel that instantly infected pop culture. With little genetic decay, Daniel Wilson replicates Michael Crichton’s tone and tics, particularly his wide-stance mansplaining. Each chapter begins with a quotation by Crichton selected, apparently, for its L. Ron Hubbard-like profundity, e.g. “There is a category of event that, once it occurs, cannot be satisfactorily resolved.” And the pages — sanitized of wit — ar...

Overall Rating : C“It is a well established Achilles’ heel of human civilization that individuals are more motivated by immediate private reward than by long-term, collective future benefits.”Does anybody else see a book with an interesting plot, with a captivating summery, and then you take a look at the authors name and it completely ruins any thought of enjoying said book?That's me with Michael Crichton. ******My face through the entire book****** I've read a few of his books (Jurassic Park s...

Well written follow up to the Andromeda Strain. Easy to follow Sci-Fi with interesting characters. 8 of 10 stars

50 years ago the Andromeda Strain almost destroyed all life on Earth. Now a new incursion has begun in the depths of the Amazon. A mysterious spire continues to grow killing everything as it expands outwards. A team of scientists is sent in to investigate in a last ditch effort to keep the Andromeda Strain from enveloping the Earth.Wilson completely incorporated Crichton's voice and legacy. He was a great choice to helm a sequel to one of Crichton's first thrillers. I was completely enthralled,

DNF at page 50 or so.I'm very sorry but this book is practically unreadable. It is one long very technical explanation full of acronyms. We do meet some characters but the story is very complicated. There is too much information without actually any action. It is more a script for a documentary than it is a novel. Pity, because I enjoyed The Andromeda Strain a lot. Thanks to Edelweiss for this digital review copy.

This is the second instalment in the Andromeda series. It was continued fifty years after Crichton's original novel and penned by Daniel H. Wilson.An extra-terrestrial microbe almost ended the human race once before and now, decades later, the threat has returned. Project Wildfire is the codename for a team of disparate individuals who are tasked with ending it and saving our species.Some of the aspects I greatly appreciated about this novel were how the expedition was broken down into daily sec...

R E V I E W The Andromeda Evolution by Daniel H. Wilson and Michael Crichton 4.5/5Thank you to Edelweiss and HarperCollins for the digital ARC of this book. Much appreciated and enjoyed!I will preface my review with this...I read The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton in 1972...I was nine. A schoolmate (thanks Mac Q) loaned me his paperback copy. I devoured it. It was new territory for me...my first grown up book...science fiction...thriller. Set me up for a lifetime of thrilling, mind blowing...

4 of 5 stars at The BiblioSanctum https://bibliosanctum.com/2019/11/18/...To start, I read The Andromeda Strain a long time ago. Admittedly, it wasn’t one of my favorites by Michael Crichton, and I can’t say I remembered much from it at all. Personally, I wouldn’t have pegged it for being sequel-worthy, but here we are, fifty years after the book was published, commemorating it with The Andromeda Evolution…and well, I’m sold! Written in its entirety by the talented Daniel H. Wilson, who is certa...

Unfortunately, the experiment has been unsuccessful .... This sequel of Andromeda has nothing to do with the first book, that of 1969. If the first was true science fiction, but very science-oriented and not too much fantastic, in this book the balance is clearly unbalanced towards the fantastic (improbable) rather than towards the science of the possible future. In the first there was an alien microbiological strain, brought back to Earth by a satellite and which develops according to a biology...

Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain is a hard act to follow and I think Daniel Wilson has done a credible job in this exciting sequel. He weaves in his expertise in science and robotics and ups the terror level with the wild, intensely-frightening Amazon jungle setting. There are the edge-of-your-seat action and ticking-clock-to-imminent-death scenes one comes to expect in these kinds of thrillers: boy, would this make a terrific adventure movie with scenes that travel from the jungle to out...

The beginning of this (a novel wholly by Daniel H Wilson and I rather loathe this idea of presenting it as a Michael Crichton ~novel~ seeing as he's been dead for like a decade) reminded me of being 12 years old and reading books like THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN for the first time. I was riveted, joyfully so. Wilson builds upon Crichton's original idea and puts together a plausible, equally terrifying reality around the Andromeda Strain's... abilities and purpose, let's say. The novel then combines som...