Prey
Ratings145
Average rating3.7
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Ratings145
Average rating3.7
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'smost 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.
--front flap
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Almost a little too scientisy for me, but overall a really good story and well written book!
I listened to this book and maybe that was a misstep. The narrator was not good but also the dialog was very clunky. So it's hard to pull those apart. The idea and plot point is fun but it's executed in a weird way. I love Jurassic park but I feel like I've read better nanomachine fiction.
I'm sure it made a lot of sense when Crichton first experienced this as a fever dream. Didn't translate on paper.
While I have been compared to Michael Crichton in a few big reviews, he is still the master of the science-based monster story. Jurassic Park should probably also be on this list (the movie had a profound influence on me...back when I wasn't reading novels), but for me, Prey is the most readable of his books, and the first of his I read that was in first person. That stuck with me, and over the years, I've shifted most of my writing from third person to first.
