Michael Crichton
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First British Edition HarperCollins (2002) |
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Paperback - HarperCollins (2003) |
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Prey
In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles-microrobots-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 upto-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.
`This is Crichton on top form, preying on our fears about new technology and convincing us that we aren’t half as afraid as we should be.’ The Times
`One of the most ingenious, inventive thriller writers around ... Prey sees him doing what he does best - taking the very latest scientific advances and showing us their potentially terrifying underbelly. Another high-concept treat… written in consummate page turning style ... fascinating.’ Observer
`Mixing cutting-edge science with thrills and spills, this is classic Crichton ... you’ll love it.’ Mirror
‘Crichton masterfully maintains the suspense throughout the fast-paced story. Crichton’s knack for characterization, combined with his impeccable research, persuades the reader that the tale is dangerously close to becoming reality - and therefore ensures that Prey will invade your nightmares for a long time to come.’ Time Out
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First British Edition Century (1999) |
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Timeline
Michael Crichton's new novel opens on the threshold of the twenty-first century. It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualised - and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century feudal France.
Imagine the risks of such a journey.
Not since Jurassic Park has Michael Crichton given us such a magnificent adventure. Here, he combines a science of the future - the emerging field of quantum technology - with the complex realities of the medieval past. In a heart-stopping narrative, Timeline carries us into a realm of unexpected suspense and danger, overturning our most basic ideas of what is possible.
For more information on Timeline and other books by Michael Crichton, visit http://www.crichton-official.com
Praise for Airframe:
'A first rate thriller' Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times
'This is the first book in ages which I can honestly say I read at a single sitting' Peter Millar, The Times
'He has a knack for anticipating the saleable which, had it not made him impossibly rich as a novelist, might have earned him millions as a stockbroker' Mark Lawson, The Guardian
About The Author
Michael Crichton was born in Chicago in 1942. He took his first degree at Harvard in anthropology, and then qualified as a medical doctor in 1969. His latest book will be his sixteenth, following the worldwide bestsellers Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure, The Lost World, and most recently, Airframe. Crichton has also been a screenwriter and producer/ director. His successes include Westworld, The Great Train Robbery, Coma and Twister and he is the creator of the smash hit TV Drama ER. He now lives and works in Los Angeles and is married with one daughter.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
Prey
(HarperCollins,
2002)
HarperCollins Pbk Aug 03
Timeline
(Century,
1999)
Airframe
Jurassic Park
Sphere
The Terminal Man
Rising Sun
Eaters of the Dead
The Andromeda Strain
The Great Train Robbery
Disclosure
Congo
The Lost World
Prey
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by Michael Crichton
