Prey
by Michael Crichton

As you probably already know, novelist Michael Crichton died earlier this month.  Although his popular books are fictional, he utilized current scientific developments to create possible scenarios.  Prey is one of those books where science goes wrong.  In the book, Jack Forman discovers that his wife’s company is working on a secretive project creating micro-robots that are self-sufficient, can self-reproduce, and evolve.  The bad thing about the project:  They are designed to kill…and a group of them have escaped, creating destruction as they migrate.  To show that he really knows his science, Crichton includes an introduction about the history of nanotechnology.  Proving that he has done his homework, Prey has an introduction with the history of nanotechnology and a bibliography in the back – which is unusual for fiction.

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