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An edition of Prey (2002)

La proie

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.6 (38 ratings) ·
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Personnalité des milieux high-tech de Silicon Valley, Julia dirige Xymos, une jeune société qui fabrique des nanoparticules, ces robots infiniment petits destinés à la recherche militaire. Depuis quelque temps, son comportement est étrange. Elle s'absente de plus en plus souvent, se cache pour téléphoner, se désintéresse de son bébé malade, prononce des phrases incohérentes... Jack, son mari, veut comprendre. Chercheur en informatique, il parvient à se faire embaucher par Xymos pour une mission de consultant. C'est là, dans un curieux complexe technologique au cœur du Nevada, qu'il va découvrir jusqu'où peut aller le génie et la folie des scientifiques. Seul, il devra affronter un prédateur que nul n'avait jusque-là imaginé. Un prédateur petit, mais qui menace la planète.
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Robert Laffont
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French
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programmers, nanorobotics, reproduction, evolution, predation, grey goo, isotopes, thermite, symbiosis, phange, E. coli, methane, imaging technology, human test subject research, cautionary tale, technology, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, distributed artificial intelligence, population dynamics, host-parasite coevolution, emergence, complexity, genetic algorithms, agent-based computing, Molecular biologists, Vida artificial, Biología molecular, Science fiction, Ciencia-ficción, Fiction, Novela, Artificial intelligence, Biología molecular, Nevada in fiction, Nanotechnology in fiction, Molecular biologists in fiction, Open Library Staff Picks, Artificial intelligence in fiction, Artificial life in fiction, Suspense fiction, Roboter, Biotechnologie, Bedrohung, Menschheit, Nanotechnologie, Artificial life, Biólogos, Ciencia-ficción, Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction, Nevada, fiction, Large type books, Fiction, thrillers, Fiction, thrillers, general, Littérature américaine, Roman, Roman policier américain, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2015-04-05, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Nanobiotechnologie, Belletristische Darstellung, Molecular biologists--fiction, Artificial life--fiction, Ps3553.r48 p74 2002, 813/.54

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Jack Forman, Julia Forman, Mae Chang, Ricky Morse, Charley Davenport, David Brooks, Rosie Castro, Swarm, Vince Reynolds, Amanda Forman, Nicole Forman, Eric Forman, silver men, Ellen, Don Gross, Gary, Maria, Annie, Carol, Mary, Bobby Lembeck, Tim Berman

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Nevada, Xymos research facility, Basin Desert, U.S. Army

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2006, Harper
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2005-01-14, Robert Laffont
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La proie
2004-07, Éd. France loisirs
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La proie
2003, R. Laffont
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Prey
2002, HarperCollins Publishers
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2002, BCA
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2002, HarperCollins Publishers
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2002, HarperCollins Publishers
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2002, HarperCollins Publishers
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Published in
Paris
Series
Pocket
Copyright Date
2003
Translation Of
Prey

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Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
468p.
Number of pages
480

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16420373M
Internet Archive
laproie0000cric_x4e2
ISBN 10
2266141171
ISBN 13
9782266141178
OCLC/WorldCat
655846727
Library Thing
11621
Goodreads
56968572

Work Description

Prey is a novel by Michael Crichton, his thirteenth under his own name and twenty-third overall, first published in November 2002, making his first novel of the twenty-first century. The novel serves as a cautionary tale about developments in science and technology; in this case, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, and distributed artificial intelligence.

The book features relatively new advances in the computing/scientific community, such as artificial life, emergence (and by extension, complexity), genetic algorithms, and agent-based computing. Fields such as population dynamics and host-parasite coevolution are also at the heart of the novel.

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