Originality, excitement, pace and scientific accuracy — readers who appreciate these elements in science fiction will enjoy thoroughly this outstanding novel of adventure. A For Andromeda is the product of a very successful collaboration between an astrophysicist of world-wide reputation and a talented dramatist whose work for British television has received the highest critical recognition.

The scene is set ten years from now. A new radio-telescope picks up from the constellation of Andromeda, two hundred light-years away, a complex series of signals which prove to be a program for a giant computer. Someone in outer space is trying to communicate, using a supremely clever yet entirely logical method.

When the necessary computer is built and begins to relay the information in receives from Andromeda, the project assumes a vital importance: politically, militarily, and commercially. For scientists find themselves possessing knowledge previously unknown to man, knowledge of such a nature that the security of human life itself is threatened.

As a seven-part serial on BBC Television, this story established popularity records. The last several installments doubled BBC's audience, reaching 80% of the viewing audience of Great Britain.

Originality, excitement, pace and scientific accuracy. These are the elements of A FOR ANDROMEDA. The product of a very successful collaboration between an astrophysicist of world-wide reputation and a talented dramatist whose work for British television has received the highest critical recognition.

The scene is set ten years from now. A new radio-telescope picks up from the constellation of Andromeda, two hundred light-years away, a complex series of signals which prove to be a program for a giant computer.

When the computer begins to relay the information in receives from Andromeda, the project assumes a vital importance. For scientists find themselves possessing knowledge previously unknown to man, knowledge of such a nature that the security of human life itself is threatened.

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Far away, from the constellation of Andromeda came a message...a programme for a giant computer which hadn't even been built. For the scientists it was a major breakthrough in technology; for the politicians it was an opportunity to conquer the world; but nobody realised the true significance the machine they had helped to create, nor of the beautiful woman who shared its secrets and its power...

MESSAGE FROM AN UNKNOWN PLANET

The faint crackling noises from the loudspeakers in the control room of the big observatory were definitely signals. Someone...or something...far out in space was trying to make contact.

Young Dr. Fleming and his colleagues were not superstitious. They were scientists. But none of them could deny the chill of fear that suddenly swept over them.

Still there was nothing really to warn them of the danger — the hideous nightmare that was about to envelop them all.

They had no way of knowing that a monstrous intelligence from outer space had already reached into their minds...that they were already victims...helpless comspirators in a silent, invisible conquest of earth.

From two hundred light years across the universe comes a message of terror. Ten years from now, a radio telescope picks up from the constellation of Andromeda, a complex series of signals which prove to be a programme for a giant computer. When the computer begins to relay the information it receives from Andromeda, the project assumes a vital importance, for scientists find themselves possessing knowledge previously unknown to man, knowledge of such a nature that the security of human life itself is threatened.

Not surprisingly from this collaboration between one of the world's most highly regarded astro-physisists and a talented dramatist, A for Andromeda is both a work of originality and excitement. Though it is many years since the original TV version starring Julie Christie had viewers enthralled, it retains its power to stimulate a new generation of science fiction enthusiasts.