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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.
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“A cross between Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain….” Columbus Dispatch
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“Crichton has proved he knows how to ratchet up the fear factor.” Denver Post
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“TERRIFYING…IRRESISTIBLY SUSPENSEFUL.” New York Times Book Review
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“Crichton is a doctor of suspense.” Des Moines Sunday Register
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“Crichton writes superbly…the excitment rises with each page.” Chicago Tribune
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“He is without peer.” Chattanooga Times
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“Once again, Crichton has proved to be uncannily timely.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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“Serious and scary…” Washington Post Book World
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“One of the great storytellers of our age…What an amazing imagination.” New York Newsday
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“PREY delivers that expected Crichton charge.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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“This is how to write a thriller …Crichtons latest page-turning triumph.” Detroit Free Press
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“Just what his fans expect: A WILD, SCARY RIDE…” Detroit Free Press
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“RELENTLESSLY ENTERTAINING” Raleigh News & Observer
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“Michael Crichton has written some of Americas most fantastic novels.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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“…so god-awful scary and relentless, itll knock your head clear of whatever ails you.” St. Petersburg Times
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“Readers turn to Michael Crichtons novels for entertainment with relentless drive.” San Antonio Express
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“… a harrowing tale of nanoparticles gone beserk.” USA Today
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"INTRICATE PLOTTING AND FLAWLESS PACING...you won't be able to put it down." Time magazine
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“A terrific novelist…He could make most readers lose sleep all night and call in sick the next day.” San Francisco Chronicle
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“Crichton delivers.” USA Today
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“Crichtons books [are]…hugely entertaining.” New York Times Book Review
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“A TERRIFYING TALE…combining technological verisimilitude with heart-pounding suspense…” The Oregonian (Portland)
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“Crichton is a master storyteller.” Detroit News
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“CRACKLING…MYSTERIOUS….” Entertainment Weekly
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“INCREDIBLY SCARY and relentless” Minneapolis Star Tribune
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“Another PAGE-TURNING TRIUMPH” Charlotte Observer
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“PREY WILL KEEP YOU TURNING PAGES” Chattanooga Times
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“INTRICATE PLOTTING AND FLAWLESS PACING…you wont be able to put it down.” Time magazine
About the Author
Michael Crichton, who died in Los Angeles on November 4, 2008, was a writer and filmmaker, best known as the author of
Jurassic Park and the creator of
ER. His most recent novel,
Next, about genetics and law, was published in December 2006.
Crichton graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, received his MD from Harvard Medical School, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, researching public policy with Jacob Bronowski. He taught courses in anthropology at Cambridge University and writing at MIT. Crichton's 2004 bestseller, State of Fear, acknowledged the world was growing warmer, but challenged extreme anthropogenic warming scenarios. He predicted future warming at 0.8 degrees C. (His conclusions have been widely misstated.)
Crichton's interest in computer modeling went back forty years. His multiple-discriminant analysis of Egyptian crania, carried out on an IBM 7090 computer at Harvard, was published in the Papers of the Peabody Museum in 1966. His technical publications included a study of host factors in pituitary chromophobe adenoma, in Metabolism, and an essay on medical obfuscation in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Crichton's first bestseller, The Andromeda Strain, was published while he was still a medical student. He later worked full time on film and writing. One of the most popular writers in the world, his books have been translated into thirty-six languages, and thirteen have been made into films.
He had a lifelong interest in computers. His feature film Westworld was the first to employ computer-generated special effects back in 1973. Crichton's pioneering use of computer programs for film production earned him a Technical Achievement Academy Award in 1995.
Crichton won an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and a Writers Guild of America Award for ER. In 2002, a newly discovered ankylosaur was named for him: Crichtonsaurus bohlini. He had a daughter, Taylor, and lived in Los Angeles. Crichton remarried in 2005.