Prey
A fired programmer is pulled into a desert crisis when self-replicating nanobots escape and begin hunting people.
First published 2004
Science FictionThriller
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Story
Jack Forman is an unemployed programmer in Silicon Valley, now home with the children while his wife works at a high-tech company. As pressure builds at home and he grows suspicious about his wife’s behavior, he is drawn back into the world of his old work and a secretive project tied to nanotechnology.
The project has gone badly wrong at a desert facility in Nevada. Tiny self-reproducing machines have escaped containment, and they are learning, evolving, and becoming harder to stop. Jack is brought in to help understand what happened and to deal with a threat that keeps changing faster than the people trying to contain it.
As the crisis escalates, the story combines domestic strain, corporate secrecy, technical explanation, and survival-driven suspense. Jack has to navigate both the collapsing situation at the facility and the uncertainty inside his own family life, while the danger grows into something increasingly difficult to predict or control.
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- Authors
- Michael Crichton
- First published
- 2004
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror, Suspense, Mystery, Adventure, Mystery Thriller
- Subjects
- 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 · 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/.54
- ISBN-13
- 9780061015724
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