Andromeda Strain

It seems like this story could have been so much more. In the book, it seems like there were some avenues Crichton opens up where I thought "A-ha, this could be interesting," only to find that they went nowhere. I enjoyed his attempt at "futurizing" computers (the novel was written in 1969). Many were close to accurate. The choice to make one of the characters female for the film I assume spoke to the women's movement of the 70s. In the end, both the book and the novel make for a pretty boring read/view, especially when the subject material has so much potential for action.