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An edition of The Andromeda Strain (1969)

The Andromeda Strain

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Airframe is a novel by the American writer Michael Crichton, his eleventh under his own name and twenty-first overall, first published in 1996, in hardcover, by Knopf and then in 1997, as a paperback, by Ballantine Books. The plot follows Casey Singleton, a quality assurance vice president at the fictional aerospace manufacturer Norton Aircraft, as she investigates an in-flight accident aboard a Norton-manufactured airliner that leaves three passengers dead and 56 injured.

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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Pages
295

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Subjects

air safety, media relations, investigative journalism, human-machine interaction, Pilot-induced oscillation, type rating, first officers, flight engineers, aircraft systems, CEOs, trade unions, Federal Aviation Administration, Airworthiness directives, unapproved aircraft parts, cascading failure, aircraft maintenance, pilot error, turbulence, air traffic control, action and adventure fiction, adventure fiction, Skønlitteratur-USA, Readers, Open Library Staff Picks, English language, Fiction, Investigation, Aircraft accidents, Fiction, thrillers, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, science fiction, general, Large type books, Fiction, espionage, Fiction, thrillers, general, Flugzeugunfall, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, Fiction, action & adventure, American Science fiction, Fiction in English, Alien life forms in fiction, Biological weapons, Science fiction, Extraterrestrial microorganisms, Military satellites, aerial surveillance, duty officers, extraterrestrial life, contamination, microorganisms, biological agents, blood clotting, suicide, Sterno, meteors, chemical elements, crystal structures, DNA, RNA, proteins, amino acids, pH, alkali, human blood, acidocis, aspirin, hyperventilation, Alkalosis, biocontainment, antibiotics, pathogens, synthetic rubber, nuclear weapons, nuclear explosions, biofilm, techno-thriller, Fiction, medical, Romans, nouvelles

People

Casey Singleton, Emily Jansen, John Marder, Jennifer Malone, Doug Doherty, Nguyen Van Trung, Ken Burne, Ron Smith, Mike Lee, Barbara Ross, Norma, Bob Richman, Harold Edgarton, Ted Rawley, Dick Shenk, Marty Reardon, Frederick Barker, Wildfire Team, Jeremy Stone, Peter Jackson, Jamie Ritter, Mark Hall, Charle Burton, Peter Leavitt

Places

Hong Kong, Denver, California, Los Angeles International Airport, China, South Korea, Burbank, USA, Piedmont, Arizona, Flatrock, Nevada, Las Vegas, Department of Agriculture research station

Times

1960s

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1981, Droemer Knaur
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The Andromeda Strain
1970-06, Dell
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The Andromeda Strain
1970-06, Dell
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1969, Alfred A. Knopf
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Published in
New York
Genre
Science fiction
Copyright Date
1969

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.5/4
Library of Congress
PZ4.C9178 An PS3553.R48

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
295 s
Number of pages
295

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OL21324321M
LCCN
69014731
Library Thing
12393
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57135447

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