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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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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.

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, takes us into the emerging realms of nanotechnology and artificial distributed intelligence -- in a story of breathtaking suspense.

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