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An edition of Prey (2002)

Prey

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  • 3.6 (38 ratings) ·
  • 114 Want to read
  • 8 Currently reading
  • 56 Have read

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'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, 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.
--front flap

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Language
English
Pages
367

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2013, Harper
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2008-11, Harper
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2006, Harper
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2004-07, Éd. France loisirs
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2003, R. Laffont
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Prey
2002, HarperCollins Publishers
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Prey
2002, BCA
Hardcover in English
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Prey
2002, HarperCollins Publishers
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Prey
2002, HarperCollins Publishers
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2002, HarperCollins Publishers
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2002, HarperCollins Publishers
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
London
Genre
Fiction.
Copyright Date
2002

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3553.R48 P74 2002, Ps3553.R48

The Physical Object

Format
hardcover
Pagination
xiii, 367 p. ;
Number of pages
367

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22861516M
ISBN 10
0007153791
ISBN 13
9780007153794
Library Thing
11621
Wikidata
Q58883501
Goodreads
59877632

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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