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Prey

Description

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.

In Prey, bestselling author Michael Crichton introduces bad guys that are too small to be seen with the naked eye but no less deadly or intriguing than the runaway dinosaurs that made 1990's Jurassic Park such a blockbuster success.

High-tech whistle-blower Jack Forman used to specialize in programming computers to solve problems by mimicking the behavior of efficient wild animals--swarming bees or hunting hyena packs, for example. Now he's unemployed and is finally starting to enjoy his new role as stay-at-home dad. All would be domestic bliss if it were not for Jack's suspicions that his wife, who's been behaving strangely and working long hours at the top-secret research labs of Xymos Technology, is having an affair. When he's called in to help with her hush-hush project, it seems like the perfect opportunity to see what his wife's been doing, but Jack quickly finds there's a lot more going on in the lab than an illicit affair. Within hours of his arrival at the remote testing center, Jack discovers his wife's firm has created self-replicating nanotechnology--a literal swarm of microscopic machines. Originally meant to serve as a military eye in the sky, the swarm has now escaped into the environment and is seemingly intent on killing the scientists trapped in the facility. The reader realizes early, however, that Jack, his wife, and fellow scientists have more to fear from the hidden dangers within the lab than from the predators without.

The monsters may be smaller in this book, but Crichton's skill for suspense has grown, making Prey a scary read that's hard to set aside, though not without its minor flaws. The science in this novel requires more explanation than did the cloning of dinosaurs, leading to lengthy and sometimes dry academic lessons. And while the coincidence of Xymos's new technology running on the same program Jack created at his previous job keeps the plot moving, it may be more than some readers can swallow. But, thanks in part to a sobering foreword in which Crichton warns of the real dangers of technology that continues to evolve more quickly than common sense, Prey succeeds in gripping readers with a tense and frightening tale of scientific suspense. --Benjamin Reese

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-18
Summary: "Creepy & cool"

Prey is science fiction in a much more pure form than what most science fiction writers put out. Michael Crichton was always brilliant about that. He did the same thing for Dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, and for many other subjects in his books. Crichton takes a real idea with real science behind it and takes it to the logical (extreme) conclusions. What would be the logical conclusion (taken to the extreme) if we figured out how to get Dinosaur DNA and started cloning them? What would happen if we put Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) into nanobots and that intelligence got smarter than we meant it to?

That is the story behind Prey. The scientists are trying to figure out how to program nano-technology to perform tasks as a group. The story involves what happens when that technology gets out of the control the scientists thought they had over it. There is also a human side-story of a married couple and suspicion of betrayal which is weaved beautifully into the tale. It is heart-wrenching, but necessary, and it lends the story the kick it needs to grab you emotionally.

It is a gripping tale, and a cautionary tale. Crichton was a visionary, and the world is lesser for losing him. At least we have the finished works he did publish, as his legacy.

Read Prey. If you like a good story, you will like it. If you like a good story, and you are interested in: science, technology, nanotech, A.I., etc. then you will LOVE it.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-08-14
Summary: "Prey"

An excellent sci-fi that holds your attention. I wonder why this book hasn't been made into a movie...

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-07-28
Summary: "Prey has it's moments."

I read it to the end (which is saying something) but didn't really think it was that good. I was left thinking it was intended as the skeleton on which to base a movie, or at least written with that hope in mind. I have to admit, I probably wouldn't have thought this if I didn't already know of Michael Crichton's relationship with Hollywood. I also knew Crichton was sympathetic towards the Men's Movement before picking this up.

I will say this book was very frightening. Rather than creating the fear, I think Crichton is tapping into something that is already there. He's building upon previous dramas and scenes we've all seen before at the movies which have frightened us - if he is not tapping into fears we have in the real world. I remember being frightened by the movie 'War of the Worlds'. . . it frightened me even more the second time I watched it. I wanted to be afraid. Perhaps it was some kind of therapy.

The story definitely has it's moments. When the main character finally connects with his wife (or ex-wife - can't remember) - it felt very real to me. It was a very powerful scene - it was a very moving part of the story. Perhaps just for this, the book deserves 5 stars. As a work of literature I suspect this particular story struggles to earn 3 stars. I have felt this 'connection' or whatever before (no laughing at me, now). It's seems in these movies and stories with alien intelligences or with our machines turning against us, there's something there that can re-affirm our humanity. The story, 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream' did this too? - been a long time since I've read the story. The most effective I've seen this done on screen is in an Outer Limits episode, 'The Human Operators' - just occurred to me writing this review the sly possible double-meaning in the episodes title.

Thinking back about the story (and thinking about things like the setting for some of the action scenes) and reading some of the plot synopsis's, this reaffirms my opinion 'Prey' was written with the big screen in mind. I imagine this story will be made into a block buster one day. . . 'Prey'

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-06-23
Summary: "Fun and fast to read"

I enjoyed the story and subject matter of the book which gets into the science of nanotechnology, information technology, biology, and corporate life. I read this book only in 3 brief sittings which is fast for me.

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-06-11
Summary: "Ok but not great"

Pretty engaging but the ending felt very contrived. It could have been much better.