Prey
By Michael Crichton
(HarperCollins, Hardcover, 9780066214122, 384pp.)
Publication Date: November 5, 2002
Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Mass Market Paperback (October 1, 2008), Mass Market Paperback (November 11, 2003), Prebound (November 2003), Audio Cassette - Abridged (November 2, 2002), Compact Disc - Abridged (November 2002), Audio Cassette (November 2002)
Categories: Technological, Thrillers
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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'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.
Michael Crichton's novels include Next, State of Fear, Prey, Timeline, Jurassic Park, and The Andromeda Strain. He is also known as a filmmaker and the creator of ER. One of the most popular writers in the world, he has sold over 150 million books, which have been translated into thirty-six languages; thirteen have been made into films. He remains the only writer to have had the number one book, movie, and TV show at the same time. Pirate Latitudes was discovered as a complete manuscript in his files after his death in 2008.
"A terrific novelist.He could make most readers lose sleep all night and call in sick the next day."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"TERRIFYING.IRRESISTIBLY SUSPENSEFUL."
-New York Times Book Review
"Crichton's books [are].hugely entertaining."
-New York Times Book Review
"Crichton delivers."
-USA Today
".so god-awful scary and relentless, it'll knock your head clear of whatever ails you."
-St. Petersburg Times
"PREY delivers that expected Crichton charge."
-Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Crichton is a doctor of suspense."
-Des Moines Sunday Register
"Serious and scary."
-Washington Post Book World
"CRACKLING.MYSTERIOUS.."
-Entertainment Weekly
"INCREDIBLY SCARY and relentless"
-Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A cross between Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain.."
-Columbus Dispatch
"Once again, Crichton has proved to be uncannily timely."
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Crichton writes superbly.the excitment rises with each page."
-Chicago Tribune
"A TERRIFYING TALE.combining technological verisimilitude with heart-pounding suspense."
-The Oregonian (Portland)
"Crichton is a master storyteller."
-Detroit News
"Just what his fans expect: A WILD, SCARY RIDE."
-Detroit Free Press
"He is without peer."
-Chattanooga Times
"This is how to write a thriller .Crichton's latest page-turning triumph."
-Detroit Free Press
"Readers turn to Michael Crichton's novels for entertainment with relentless drive."
-San Antonio Express
"Crichton has proved he knows how to ratchet up the fear factor."
-Denver Post
"INTRICATE PLOTTING AND FLAWLESS PACING.you won't be able to put it down."
-Time magazine
"Michael Crichton has written some of America's most fantastic novels."
-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
". a harrowing tale of nanoparticles gone beserk."
-USA Today
"RELENTLESSLY ENTERTAINING"
-Raleigh News & Observer
"Another PAGE-TURNING TRIUMPH"
-Charlotte Observer
"One of the great storytellers of our age.What an amazing imagination."
-New York Newsday
"PREY WILL KEEP YOU TURNING PAGES"
-Chattanooga Times
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