Things never turn out the way you think they will.
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Prey
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by Michael Crichton
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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.
Every attempt to destroy it has failed.
And we are the prey.
As fresh as today's headlines, Michael Crichton'smost 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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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
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2008-11, Harper
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2004-07, Éd. France loisirs
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Prey
2002, HarperCollins Publishers
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2002, HarperCollins Publishers
Hardcover
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-367).
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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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