Prey

1 About this book

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.

Good for readers who want: science fiction, a thriller, artificial intelligence, and a long read.

• Evolution
• Technology
• Nanotechnology
• Science fiction
• Artificial intelligence
• Thrillers
• Genetic engineering
• Complexity