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| Author | Michael Crichton |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction, Techno-thriller, horror, nanopunk |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
Publication date | November 25, 2002 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 502 |
| ISBN | 0-00-715379-1 |
| OCLC | 50433577 |
| Preceded by | Timeline |
| Followed by | State of Fear |
Prey is the thirteenth novel by Michael Crichton under his own name and his twenty-third novel overall. It was first published in November 2002, making it his first novel of the twenty-first century. An excerpt was first published in the January–February 2003 issue of Seed magazine. Prey brings together themes from two earlier Crichton best-selling novels, Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain and serves as a cautionary tale about developments in science and technology, in particular, 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.
Film rights to the book were purchased by 20th Century Fox.[1]
- ^ Boehm, Erich. "20th hunts Crichton's 'Prey'". Variety.