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S'està carregant… Prey (2002 original; edició 2002)de Michael Crichton (Autor)
Informació de l'obraPrey de Michael Crichton (2002)
   No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.   ) jezebellydancer | Feb 11, 2024 |  derailer | Jan 25, 2024 | It's Crichton's usual fare. Future tech moshed up to make a singular horror show in the wrong and stupid hands. This time it's Evolution AI x Nanotech Biological Thingamajigs = Massive chaos. All of his references are from the 1970s through the 1990s. A couple hit 2000 and 2001, and are solid science. The concepts are wild and well explained. It's the characters that put me to sleep. Boring, two-dimensional characters. (  ) rabbit-stew | Dec 31, 2023 | I can see that Prey is a little less action heavy though and that makes some parts a little slower. Overall I found it a cool speculative piece with a good amount of horror and science mixed in. ( ) rianainthestacks | Nov 5, 2023 | PREY is a fast read with plenty of twists and turns. The characters aren't necessarily likeable, and the writing isn't stellar, but the premise is solid and fascinating. Give this a shot if you're looking for a book about technology going wrong in the most extreme way possible. ( ) Elizabeth_Cooper | Oct 27, 2023 |
 Prey is a thriller, well constructed and fun to read, like Michael Crichton's other books. Prey finds him in familiar territory, cooking up devilish situations for mankind at the hands of scientists working without restraint and manipulated by big business for their own greedy ends.  As a writer, Crichton has always been a businessman, but his novels are usually competent. This one is dull, dull, dull. Science fiction can work (Alien, Blade Runner), but only where the mix of science and fiction is right.  Crichton dresses up his stories in contemporary clothes, and the nature of the threat is as much a wardrobe decision as anything else. It is, in fact, the key decision, and his alighting on nanotechnology is inspired. But ''Prey'' blazes enough trails that no one will mind that none of them are literary. PremisDistincionsLlistes notables
Fiction.
Science Fiction.
Thriller.
HTML: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. .No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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