Prey
4 journalers for this copy...
"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. 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 up-to-the-minute scientific fact, Prey takes us into the emerging realms of nanotechnology and artificially distributed intelligence."
Bit of a reading backlog - will get to this one when it clears!
Bit of a reading backlog - will get to this one when it clears!
Journal Entry 2 by Feryl at The Spot in Randwick, New South Wales Australia on Saturday, October 21, 2006
Released 18 yrs ago (10/21/2006 UTC) at The Spot in Randwick, New South Wales Australia
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I'm releasing this one somewhere at The Spot, as part of the biggest book release attempt...
I'm releasing this one somewhere at The Spot, as part of the biggest book release attempt...
I pinched this one from Feryl before she got a chance to release it, but I have more of a journalling backlog than a reading one at the moment.
Michael Crichton seems to be getting more preachy at the moment, but this wasn't nearly as over the top as the last of his that I read. The message for this one was that we tend to do things that we don't understand, and that we're more driven by money and politics than by good sense. Spot on Mr Crichton.
Pretty trashy, but a quick fun read.
Michael Crichton seems to be getting more preachy at the moment, but this wasn't nearly as over the top as the last of his that I read. The message for this one was that we tend to do things that we don't understand, and that we're more driven by money and politics than by good sense. Spot on Mr Crichton.
Pretty trashy, but a quick fun read.
Journal Entry 4 by miss-jo at Cafe Tiffany's, Imperial Arcade, Pitt Street Mall in Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, December 7, 2006
Released 18 yrs ago (12/8/2006 UTC) at Cafe Tiffany's, Imperial Arcade, Pitt Street Mall in Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia
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I'll release this at the 'breakfast at Tiffany's' mini meet tomorrow
I'll release this at the 'breakfast at Tiffany's' mini meet tomorrow
Journal Entry 5 by Feryl from Coffs Harbour, New South Wales Australia on Saturday, December 9, 2006
I didn't end up releasing this at our mini meetup - there was already another copy in the basket at Tiffany's so I'm going to send this one off in the Aussie General Bookbag #5.
Taken from the bookbag.
A bit too much scientific detail at times for me, but overall an enjoyable long weekend read.
Released 14 yrs ago (7/27/2010 UTC) at Darwin, Northern Territory Australia
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Travelling with a bookring. Books shouldn't travel alone.
Thanks Amber. Much appreciated.
p.s. I miss Darwin weather in winter.
p.s. I miss Darwin weather in winter.
