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Prey
Michael Crichton

Prey

Avon (Nov 01, 2003)
9780061015724
| Mass Market Paperback
528 pages | 106 x 166 mm | English
Dewey 813.54

Genre

  • Clones
  • Science Fiction
  • Speculative Fiction
  • Suspense

Subject

  • Artificial Life
  • Molecular Biologists
  • Nevada
  • Science Fiction
  • Suspense Fiction

Plot

In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horriblywrong. 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 evolvingswiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour.Every attempt to destroy it has failed.And we are the prey.