Prey
Edition: First Harper Large Print Edition
Publisher: Harper Large Print
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9780060536985
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Science Fiction - High Tech; Large type books; Fiction; Fiction - Science Fiction; Science Fiction - General; Suspense; Fiction / General; Large print books; Science Fiction
First sentence: Things never turn out the way you think they will.
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'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.