![]() Wednesday’s session has quite a mixed panel. (Today’s science fiction still loves geeky details but no longer regards white males as the only plausible characters. ![]() It’s chock-full of geeky details about interesting stuff, including several probability tables involving something called the Odd Man Hypothesis it has clumsy but not painfully bad writing and there’s hardly a female or non-white person to be seen. The Andromeda Strain has all the characteristics of 1969 science fiction. That takes place Wednesday evening at 7 (Zoom ID is 95849047229) on Thursday at 7 will be a general book discussion via Zoom. I’ll be part of an online panel discussion about what the book does, and does not, tell us about our current pandemic. Why mention this bit of literary ancient history, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year? Because The Andromeda Strain is the topic of NHTI’s book club, known as Campus Reads. ![]() It made Crichton internationally famous, although now he’s better known for Jurassic Park. The Andromeda Strain was the first book by Michael Crichton and it was a sensation, breaking into best-seller lists at a time when science fiction was usually confined to the edges. It had a much better name, however – The Andromeda Strain – and it was much deadlier. Back when I was in middle school a lot of people were talking about a disastrous infection that had come out of an exotic place and was threatening millions of people, just like COVID-19. ![]()
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