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Prey 
oleh: Michael Crichton
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Penerbit :    Avon
Edisi :    Mass Market Paperback
ISBN :    0061015725
ISBN-13 :    9780061015724
Tgl Penerbitan :    2003-01-11
Bahasa :    English
 
Halaman :    544
Ukuran :    0x0x0 mm
Tag :    buku impor
Sinopsis Buku:
In Prey, bestselling author Michael Crichton introduces bad guys that are too small to be seen with the naked eye but no less deadly or intriguing than the runaway dinosaurs that made 1990's Jurassic Park such a blockbuster success.

High-tech whistle-blower Jack Forman used to specialize in programming computers to solve problems by mimicking the behavior of efficient wild animals--swarming bees or hunting hyena packs, for example. Now he's unemployed and is finally starting to enjoy his new role as stay-at-home dad. All would be domestic bliss if it were not for Jack's suspicions that his wife, who's been behaving strangely and working long hours at the top-secret research labs of Xymos Technology, is having an affair. When he's called in to help with her hush-hush project, it seems like the perfect opportunity to see what his wife's been doing, but Jack quickly finds there's a lot more going on in the lab than an illicit affair. Within hours of his arrival at the remote testing center, Jack discovers his wife's firm has created self-replicating nanotechnology--a literal swarm of microscopic machines. Originally meant to serve as a military eye in the sky, the swarm has now escaped into the environment and is seemingly intent on killing the scientists trapped in the facility. The reader realizes early, however, that Jack, his wife, and fellow scientists have more to fear from the hidden dangers within the lab than from the predators without.

The monsters may be smaller in this book, but Crichton's skill for suspense has grown, making Prey a scary read that's hard to set aside, though not without its minor flaws. The science in this novel requires more explanation than did the cloning of dinosaurs, leading to lengthy and sometimes dry academic lessons. And while the coincidence of Xymos's new technology running on the same program Jack created at his previous job keeps the plot moving, it may be more than some readers can swallow. But, thanks in part to a sobering foreword in which Crichton warns of the real dangers of technology that continues to evolve more quickly than common sense, Prey succeeds in gripping readers with a tense and frightening tale of scientific suspense. --Benjamin Reese





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Ia dilahirkan di Chicago, Illinois, pada tanggal 23 Oktober 1942, lulusan Harvard College dan Harvard Medical School. Selain menulis novel dan buku-buku nonfiksi, ia juga menyutradarai beberapa film, di antaranya Coma, Westworld, dan The Great Train Robbery. Buku-bukunya telah diterjemahkan ke dalam 30 bahasa dan banyak pula yang difilmkan, di antaranya Congo, Disclosure, Jurassic Park, Timeline. Ia juga kreator dan eksekutif produser seri televisi ER yang sukses di beberapa negara, termasuk Indonesia. Kegandrungannya pada teknologi terutama komputer mendorong Crichton menciptakan games-games komputer, di antaranya Amazon, Congo, dan Timeline.

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