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The Andromeda Strain
295 pages1969
American Science fictionFictionFiction in EnglishAlien life forms in fictionBiological weapons
About This Book
The United States government is given a warning by the preeminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilisation procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer f...
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7h 31m
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180 WPM
5h 25m
average reader
250 WPM
3h 52m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 81,125 wordsπ
11 days at 30 min/day
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6 hours 1 min
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