Prey - 00.txt
General Information
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Title: Prey
Author: Michael Crichton
Read By: George Wilson
Copyright: 2002
Audiobook Copyright: 2002
Genre: Sciense Fiction
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Media: Tape
Source: Library
Condition: Very Good
File Information
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Total Duration: 12:52
Total MP3 Size: 412.45 MB
Parity Archive: y
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Book Description
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In Prey, bestselling author Michael Crichton introduces bad guys that
are too small to be seen with the naked eye but no less deadly or intriguing
than the runaway dinosaurs that made 1990's Jurassic Park such a blockbuster
success.
High-tech whistle-blower Jack Forman used to specialize in programming
computers to solve problems by mimicking the behavior of efficient wild
animals--swarming bees or hunting hyena packs, for example. Now he's
unemployed and is finally starting to enjoy his new role as stay-at-home
dad. All would be domestic bliss if it were not for Jack's suspicions
that his wife, who's been behaving strangely and working long hours
at the top-secret research labs of Xymos Technology, is having an affair.
When he's called in to help with her hush-hush project, it seems like
the perfect opportunity to see what his wife's been doing, but Jack
quickly finds there's a lot more going on in the lab than an illicit
affair. Within hours of his arrival at the remote testing center, Jack
discovers his wife's firm has created self-replicating nanotechnology--a
literal swarm of microscopic machines. Originally meant to serve as
a military eye in the sky, the swarm has now escaped into the environment
and is seemingly intent on killing the scientists trapped in the facility.
The reader realizes early, however, that Jack, his wife, and fellow
scientists have more to fear from the hidden dangers within the lab
than from the predators without.
The monsters may be smaller in this book, but Crichton's skill for suspense
has grown, making Prey a scary read that's hard to set aside, though
not without its minor flaws. The science in this novel requires more
explanation than did the cloning of dinosaurs, leading to lengthy and
sometimes dry academic lessons. And while the coincidence of Xymos's
new technology running on the same program Jack created at his previous
job keeps the plot moving, it may be more than some readers can swallow.
But, thanks in part to a sobering foreword in which Crichton warns of
the real dangers of technology that continues to evolve more quickly
than common sense, Prey succeeds in gripping readers with a tense and
frightening tale of scientific suspense.
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