Prey

By Michael Crichton

Subjects: Menschheit, emergence, Science fiction, Ps3553.r48 p74 2002, Molecular biologists, programmers, imaging technology, Suspense fiction, Biotechnologie, Novela, Ciencia-ficción, thermite, predation, evolution, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2015-04-05, Open Library Staff Picks, grey goo, Molecular biologists in fiction, Littérature américaine, symbiosis, methane, Large type books, New York Times bestseller, Artificial intelligence in fiction, Roman policier américain, 813/.54, Artificial life, Nanotechnologie, Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction, phange, Roboter, nanorobotics, genetic algorithms, Fiction, thrillers, Ciencia-ficción, Nanobiotechnologie, Bedrohung, Roman, New York Times reviewed, Artificial intelligence, Fiction, Nevada in fiction, nanotechnology, human test subject research, Biólogos, Biología molecular, technology, Artificial life--fiction, population dynamics, Fiction, thrillers, general, Belletristische Darstellung, Molecular biologists--fiction, cautionary tale, agent-based computing, isotopes, Artificial life in fiction, host-parasite coevolution, Nevada, fiction, Vida artificial, complexity, distributed artificial intelligence, Nanotechnology in fiction, reproduction, Biología molecular, genetic engineering, E. coli

Description: 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. ---------- Contains: [Prey [1/2]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28766164W) [Prey [2/2]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28766161W) Also contained in: [Reader's Digest Condensed Books](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL26430990W)