Premiering tonight on the A&E Network, is another crack at best-selling author Michael Crichton's sci-fi thriller, The Andromeda Strain. The 1969 novel was Michael Crichton's first best-seller, and inspired the classic film just two years later. If you have never read the novel (I don't remember, if I ever did ... it's not part of my library ... shame, shame on me), or seen the 1971 film (directed by Robert Wise, and starring Arthur Hill as Stone ... one of my fav sci-fi films), this new generation mini-series will be a great way to introduce you to one of the classic sci-fi thrillers, of all time.