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Other Versions of this Book: Paperback, Audio Cassette (Abridged), Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Audio CD (Unabridged), Paperback, Audio CD (Abridged), Paperback
Book Description:
In the Nevada desert an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has failed. And we are the prey.
As fresh as today's headlines, Michael Crichton's most compelling novel yet tells the story of a mechanical plague and the desperate efforts of a handful of scientists to stop it. Drawing on up-to-the-minute scientific fact, 'Prey' takes us into the emerging realms of nanotechnology and artificial distributed intelligence -- in a story of breathtaking suspense. 'Prey' is a novel you can't put down. Because time is running out.
As fresh as today's headlines, Michael Crichton's most compelling novel yet tells the story of a mechanical plague and the desperate efforts of a handful of scientists to stop it. Drawing on up-to-the-minute scientific fact, 'Prey' takes us into the emerging realms of nanotechnology and artificial distributed intelligence -- in a story of breathtaking suspense. 'Prey' is a novel you can't put down. Because time is running out.
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4 member(s) found this review helpful.
An interesting concept. I read this back before I had really begun to develop my distrust of agri-corporations and chemical/biological tinkering with life in general, so it's hard for me to give a straight review. It does make one think about today's "medical" industry, though.
V. N. (verrby) reviewed 10/21/2006...
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
Subtly frightening... Crichton constructs a suspenseful tale of technology and the unpredicable twists of Nature (or are they predicable? Hmmm...). Crichton is always a good read.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Interesting premise: attack of the nanites. Thoroughly enjoyable reading.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Outstanding book. Extremely exciting, with many twists and turns, Definitely grabs hold of you and sucks you in for a long time.
Bren
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Not one of his best, and I've read just about everything he's written.
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1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I just finished reading this. It's a good read, full of suspense and twists in the plot. When you think A is happening, it isn't. Then you think B is happening, and it isn't. Then you find right near the end something very different is really going on. There were actually 2 ways to eradicate the problem, both interesting.
Tale of typical corporate greed and short-sightedness, with a single hero who really has the foresight to predict the disaster about to happen.
Tale of typical corporate greed and short-sightedness, with a single hero who really has the foresight to predict the disaster about to happen.
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