: Prey
Author: Michael Crichton
Pretty cool (though futuristic to the point of improbability) story about nanotechnology gone wrong. Nanotechnology, if you’re not familiar with it, is making ultra-tiny machines: machines literally at the cellular level (or smaller). This novel brings into question the nature of intelligence (can machines think?) and what happens when we underestimate the technology we create. It’s far-fetched, though theoretically technically possible. The horrible creatures created are quite frightening, though Crichton takes them too far into the fantastic for them to be completely believable. (I can believe in machines escaping and living on their own, but not them infecting people and taking them over.) Still, it’s a fun book and will make a cool movie.
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