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An edition of Prey (2002)

Prey

Mass market pbk. ed.

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  • ★★★ 3.5 (43 ratings)
  • 147 Want to read
  • 8 Currently reading
  • 74 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.
--back cover

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HarperCollins Publishers
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English
Pages
507

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2006, Hayakawa Shobō
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2004-07, Éd. France loisirs
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2003, HarperCollins Publishers
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2003, R. Laffont
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2002, HarperCollins Publishers
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Prey
2002, HarperCollins Publishers
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Edition Notes

With an introduction by the author (p. [xi] - xvii).

With a bibliography (p. [503] - 507).

Published in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Copyright Date
2002

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3553.R48P74 2003

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Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
xvii, 507 p.
Number of pages
507

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL22601784M
ISBN 10
0006392970
ISBN 13
9780006392972
OCLC/WorldCat
759564305
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0006392970
Canadian National Library Archive
C2003-903775-4
LibraryThing
11621
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OL46883W

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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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