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  • Prey - Michael Crichton

  • In a Nutshell -
    Jack Forman, an unemployed computer programmer gets called in to help solve a problem at the bio-technology company where his wife is a VP. The problem turns out to be an escaped swarm of artificially intelligent nano-bots that have begun to display predatory behavior.

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    In a Nutshell -
    Jack Forman, an unemployed computer programmer gets called in to help solve a problem at the bio-technology company where his wife is a VP. The problem turns out to be an escaped swarm of artificially intelligent nano-bots that have begun to display predatory behavior.

    For full review at "You Shoulda Listened" -
    http://shouldalistened.blogspot.com/2008/06/pre...

    

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  • couldn't put it down, read like a movie

    

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  • One has to suspend one's belief when reading any Crichton novel, really, but nanoparticles designed to take over the world? No, sorry, I can't take it anymore. A friend of mine calls this "the worst book ever written." It's definitely one of the worst I've ever read.

    

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  • Very interesting. This is one of the first Crichton books I've read where the entire novel is told from first-person perspective. Love the book, still.

    

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• ― Savedr said on May 15, 2007 about the Mass Market Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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.

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