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''[[The Andromeda Strain]]'' is a novel published by [[Michael Crichton]] in 1969 about a team of scientists who investigate a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin that causes rapid, fatal blood clotting. As the novel opens, the microorganism has killed an entire town save for two individuals, an old man and a crying infant. The team races to find the common link between the two survivors before the rapidly mutating organism can find a way out of containment and cause a deadly epidemic. The team is whisked away to an underground research installation called Wildfire, located in a remote part of Nevada. A lot of the book and the 1971 movie spend considerable time showing the process they have to go through to be decontaminated and able to work on the problem.
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==== The Book ====
* [[Computer Voice]]: The computer in the Wildfire secret underground base plays pre-recorded messages spoken by a pleasant female voice. It is revealed that the voice, which one scientist describes as "luscious," is that of a woman in her 60's, turning it into in-universe [[Fetish Retardant]]
:This is in-universe [[Fan Service]], as the book points out that the most sexy voice the military could find is used for voice reminder systems on the theory that men will pay more attention to it. It turns into in-universe [[Fetish Retardant]] when the same voice also announces the {{spoiler|nuclear countdown.}} Stone finds this extremely infuriating.
* [[Disability Immunity]]: the titular Strain kills an entire town save a baby and an old man. Turns out that the contagion is actually extremely sensitive to abnormal [[wikipedia:PH|PH]] levels. The old man was a nutcase who drank alcohol jury-rigged from canned stove fuel, resulting in somewhat acidic blood, and the baby had colic, and had cried himself into alkalosis.
* [[Hidden in Plain Sight]]: The top-secret WILDFIRE facility is hidden underneath a real agricultural research facility studying ''corn crops''.
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