Book of the Month Preview: ‘Prey’ by Michael Crichton
Fall is upon us, and that means SPOOKY MONTH is around the corner!
Now, for October, our BOOK OF THE MONTH is Prey by Michael Crichton.
Every October, we plan to read a horror fantasy novel that has been on our TBR for ages. If you’ve been with us, you know Maude Garrett is not a fan of horror in the slightest, but with a sprinkle of the fantastical, she’ll squeeze a book in for our book club.
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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.
Prey
by michael crichton
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.
What Prey Offers
genetic engineering
artificial intelligence
nanotechnology
experiment gone wrong
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