Things never turn out the way you think they will.
An edition of Prey
(2002)
Prey
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by Michael Crichton
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In California, odd things are happening to unemployed scientist Jack Forman. His children tell Jack that strange men have visited the house. And Julia, his wife, isn't helping — she acts, even looks, somehow different.
Deep in the Nevada desert, in the laboratory where Julia works, matters are out of control. A swarm of rogue microbots, designed to reproduce and learn, is developing with a frightening speed that has the scientists battling to contain it.
Only when Jack is called in to help does he discover the shocking truth — the microbots have been programmed to behave as predators. And Man is the Prey...
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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/.54People
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 BermanPlaces
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2008-11, Harper
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Prey CD Low Price
July 26, 2005, HarperAudio
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Presa (Spanish language edition)
November 2004, Debolsillo
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La proie
2004-07, Éd. France loisirs
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January 30, 2004, Plaza & Janes Editories Sa
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August 30, 2004, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
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2003, HarperCollins Publishers
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2003-11, Avon
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奈米獵殺
2003, Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
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2003, HarperCollins Publishers
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2003, Windsor / Chivers Press
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2002, HarperCollins Publishers
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November 25, 2002, HarperAudio
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November 25, 2002, HarperAudio
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2002, HarperCollins Publishers
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2002, HarperCollins Publishers
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July 2002, Recorded Books
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November 25, 2002, HarperAudio
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2002, Harper Large Print
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2002, HarperCollins Publishers
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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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