 Join me and my co-hosts every Saturday at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Pacific for cartoons and movies at the 50th Street Studio, Twitch channel See you there Hello everybody and welcome to 30 seconds sci-fi. My name is Keith I'm going to talk this week about the Andromeda strain by Michael Creighton the movie version of Andromeda strain from the early 70s 1971 I think is one of my all-time favorite movies many people consider the movie boring because it's so dry But that's exactly what I like about it It's all science and it's excellent speculative science. I find it thrilling from beginning to end and Somehow though I never read the book. Well, I finally did and it was good. I thought the movie was better The the book gets away from that dryness a bit the the movie definitely took its cues toward that Day by day hour by hour chronicle of what's happening But the book it has a few problems with wandering from the narrative a bit There there are passages in the book that get off track like talking about the so-called virus from outer space That might actually be a living thing might actually be aliens. It starts to get a little bit Woo-woo here and there and it's pretty much because of that alone that I like the movie better I still recommend it, especially if you're interested in the movie That TV mini series that came out on the sci-fi channel a few years ago. I've never seen that and It sounds pretty awful from what people have told me Thank you for watching. Please come back next week for more book reviews And in the meantime, please become a sponsor to help me make more of these You can follow the link on screen and in the description below where you can make a monthly pledge or a one-time donation and We will see you back here next time. Bye