American writer Michael Crichton in his book “The Andromeda Strain” paints a fantastic, but quite plausible picture of our planet being infected by an extraterrestrial bacterial strain as a result of the Pentagon’s preparations for bacteriological warfare. The responsibility of scientists for the fate of man in an age of rapid development of science lies precisely in This is the main idea of the novel. In the 1991 edition, the novel “Computer Man” was added to the novel “The Andromeda Strain.”