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In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horriblywrong. 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 evolvingswiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour.
Every attempt to destroy it has failed.
And we are the prey.
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- Mass Market Paperback 544 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0061015725
- ISBN-13: 9780061015724
- Publisher: Avon
- Pub date: Nov 01, 2003
- Dimensions: 17 cm x 10 cm x 2 cm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and Others
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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.
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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.
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couldn't put it down, read like a movie
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.
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.