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    The Prey

    Written by Tom Isbell

    Narrated by Ariana Delawari and Christian Barillas

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    In the Republic of the True America, it's always hunting season. Riveting action, intense romance, and gripping emotion make this fast-paced adventure a standout debut.

    After a radiation blast burned most of the Earth to a crisp, the new government established settlement camps for the survivors. At one such camp, Book and the other ‘LTs’ are eager to graduate as part of the Rite.

    Until they learn the dark truth: ‘LTs’ doesn't stand for lieutenant but for ‘Less Thans’, feared by society and raised to be hunted for sport. Together with the sisters, Hope and Faith, twin girls who've suffered their own haunting fate, they join forces to seek the safety of the fabled New Territory.

    As Book and Hope lead their quest for freedom, these teens must find the best in themselves to fight the worst in their enemies. But as they are pursued by sadistic hunters, secrets are revealed, allegiances are made, and lives are threatened.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 12, 2015
    ISBN9780008119850
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    Tom Isbell

    Tom Isbell grew up in Illinois, and graduated from the Yale School of Drama before spending ten years as a professional actor, which saw him star in episodes of shows such as Golden Girls, Kate and Allie, Murder She Wrote and many more. He is now both a teacher at the University of Minnesota Duluth and an author. His debut, The Prey was published in 2015, and was followed by The Capture in 2016.

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    • 4/5
      Prey is a techno-thriller where Michael Crichton takes us deep into the world of nanotechnology. In this science space, millions of nanoparticles act as a swarm to achieve a common goal. However, what happens when the swarm evolves faster than the humans that design it? Crichton has authored a suspenseful story in which nanomachines are used to develop innovative medical diagnostic images by essentially creating a nano-eye that can traverse the blood stream, but all is not as it seems as the true reason for the technology comes to light.Michael Crichton spends a great deal of time on the scientific details of nanotechnology and distributed computer processing, which are essential in understanding the plot. Each nanoparticle is given a very simple program to run and a very small brain (CPU/Memory) to achieve its objective. As more and more particles are introduced into the system each particle communicates with nearby particles, in essence increasing the brain power of the machine. Crichton takes this a step further by allowing the swarm to learn and evolve at a rate much higher than expected. The result: Prey. A fun and suspenseful read.
    • 4/5
      Michael Crichton never fails to give you enough information to understand his topic. Unfortunately, it's sometimes overwhelming. The storyline is gripping in its concept - nano technology is already here and hard to control. That's the thing about Crichton - he can make things real enough to scare the pants off you.
    • 4/5
      In this dystopian beginning to a trilogy, boys are kept in resettlement camps where they believe that they are being raised before becoming part of the army. Book is one of the boys. When he finds another boy outside the camp and near death, he is surprised to hear him whisper "You got to get me out of here." When the boy recovers, he takes Book and a couple of other boys to watch boys who have graduated from the camp being hunted. This inspires Book to begin to organize an escape. On one of his initial forays, he discovers a nearby girls camp and meets a girl named Hope.Hope and her twin sister Faith are new arrivals at the girls camp, They had been living in the wilderness with their father until he died and they were captured by soldiers. They quickly learn that they are being used for medical experimentation (think Nazi Germany and the concentration camps). Faith, who was always gentler and weaker, doesn't survive the experiments. And when Hope learns that the leaders have sent a message to eliminate the evidence of the experiments, Hope and some of the other girls decide that they need to escape too.A small group of boys and a larger group of girls escape and try to make their way to a new district where they hope conditions are better. They have to battle the hunters, the soldiers, mutated wolves, and the elements as they try to find freedom. The book was action-packed with the girls digging a tunnel which is filling with water to make their escape and then the whole group running from a forest fire set by the hunters. The grossest part was when they had to eat maggot-infested meat to avoid starvation.Like many dystopias, we have only vague ideas of what caused this and even vaguer ideas of what the world is like outside of the two camps. I am very curious about both of those things and wonder about the economics of raising these young men to be hunted. There has to be money somewhere!Students who are looking for still another dystopia will enjoy this one.
    • 4/5
      An experiment has gone wrong in a lab in the Nevada desert. A swarm of nanoparticles (micro-robots) has accidentally been released into the outside world. And they evolve into something entirely more dangerous than planned...So far so good, it reads like a typical suspense thriller/horror book - something is out there to get us. We are outnumbered, all alone, isolated, weaker and we have to come up with a way to kill it before it gets too smart and kills us.... Nothing unexpected there. But it is really creepy, especially because it has one of those more or less open endings that you can interpret any way you wish. Reminded me alot of his "Andromeda Strain", although that still is my favourite Crichton novel to date.
    • 1/5
      The usual Michael Crichton schtick: imagine some technology run amok, deliver lectures on the dangers of science, and maintain a bizarre, almost willful blindness to the way in which the social system led to the problem at hand. I don't expect to ever see a lecture in a Crichton book about how there are dangers to a system that gives corporations so much power and that allows individuals the chance of great wealth if they gamble in a way that risks the lives of others.What I didn't expect in this book was the extreme aggression towards the way the legal system handles fathers in divorces, and the attitudes of society towards stay-at-home dads --- did he or a friend go through a vicious divorce a few years ago? (On the other hand there was all that misogyny in Disclosure, so perhaps it's not that unexpected.)As always we get the pop science explanations throughout the book of evolution and of various programming models inspired by natures (for example genetic algorithms). All in all these were not too bad (and a whole lot more relevant than the inane tangents on chaos theory in Jurassic Park), but the whole package falls apart badly on the science side by the time we get past the middle of the book. There is no distinction made between evolution and learning, there is no attention paid to the *selection* and even more so the *reproduction* aspects of evolution, and the pace of everything biological was taken to be far far too fast.My natural inclination would be to avoid State of Fear because of the subject matter, but having listened to this, I think I can also safely avoid it on the grounds of it probably being crap.
    • 4/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      I really like the idea of something man-made and tiny threatening humanity, but there were a few things that didn't quite add up in my head. Also, it wasn't quite as scary as I think it could have been.
    • 3/5
      In diesem Wissenschafts-Thriller geht es um Schwärme aus Nanorobotern, die außer Kontrolle geraten sind, ein Eigenleben entwickelt haben und nach Beute jagen. Die Geschichte braucht einige Zeit, um in Gang zu kommen, der Anfang liest sich etwas schleppend. Nach etwa hundert Seiten kommt dann Spannung auf in einem typischen Crichton Szenario: In einem abgelegenen Forschungslabor in der Wüste, versuchen einige wenige Menschen, der Bedrohung entgegen zu treten, wobei die Gefahr sowohl von außen als auch von innen kommt. Der wissenschaftliche Hintergrund ist im Ansatz interessant, die Geschichte aber letztlich nicht sehr glaubwürdig. Insgesamt ist es nach langsamen Anlauf ein stellenweise spannender und kurzweiliger Roman, der aber nicht die Qualitäten von z.B. "Sphere - Gedanken des Bösen" vom gleichen Autor hat.
    • 4/5
      Jack Forman has big problems. The out-of-work computer programmer turned stay-at-home dad suspects that his wife is having an affair. Little does he know that this is the least of his problems. His wife Julia has been working long hours with a new technology – nanotechnology – creating tiny robots the size of an atom. But something has gone horribly awry. The nanobots have escaped, and based on a computer program that Jack wrote, they have also begun to reproduce, evolve, swarm, and hunt. Humans are their prey. Crichton’s most suspenseful novel yet , Prey, will leave you in a constant state of anticipation, eagerly turning the page to see what happens next.
    • 4/5
      Synopsis: Jack is now the care taker of his family after losing his job as writing computer codes. His wife works at Xymos, a lab in the Nevada desert that is developing nonoparticles - micro-machines. Jack suspects his wife Julia of having an affair. Something goes wrong at the lab and a swarm of nanoparticles escaped. The swarm is able to learn from experiences and seems to be self sustained and reproducing. Jack is called in to inspect the PREDPREY code that was used with the nanoparticles. When he gets to the lab, the team is acting secretive and the job is much more deadly than Jack suspected.Pros & Cons: The book is suspenseful, intelligent, and engaging. It seems to follow the typical Crichton formula: A big corporation does something that can be harmful to the population, an unsuspecting character has the knowledge to solve the problem and save the day while exposing the corporation, the scenarios seem like they can actually happen. Crichton is an excellent story teller, and although I enjoyed this book, I liked it less than some of his other books. The ending felt rushed and did not seem to fit with the flow of the rest of the story. Recommended for Crichton fans and those who enjoy thrillers
    • 3/5
      Another ingenious fictional treatment by Crichton of a pioneering science theme – in this case, nanotechnology. His attitude to science is ambivalent: on the one hand, excitement and curiosity; on the other, deep suspicion. As the tempo picks up, he stoops to low budget vampire movie hokum. Crichton has surely made enough money as a writer not to have to hustle like this. The climax is pure Dr Phibes, feeding the flames of science phobia. How many destroyers of GM crops have more than a vague understanding of genetic science? Do they even want to understand? Nanotechnology is now lined up as the next bogeyman.
    • 1/5
      Cliched tale of technology gone awry. Two-dimensional characterisation doesn’t help.
    • 2/5
      Slightly wierd but a but fast moving story
    • 4/5
      Michael Crichton would occasionally write books forewarning the general populace of new technology gone bad. For example, with Jurassic Park, it was dinosaur cloning.With Prey, the technology to fear is nanotechnology. Granted, it's mixed a bit with swarm technology, evolutionary algorithms, and genetic modification. But the root is nanotechnology: tiny little robots that can replicate themselves, and do stuff on a tiny level.The story is told through the point of view of the protagonist, an out-of-work computer programmer. He's eager to get a job before he reaches his "shelf-life."His wife, he's noticed, has been aloof with respect to the family. He fears the worse: she's having an affair. After she gets into an automobile accident, he gets a job offer from her company. He jumps right on it, part to have a job, and part to uncover the root of her mysterious behavior.So, at the lab, in the middle of the desert, he learns that a rogue swarm built for the DOD has escaped and is replicating in the desert. The odd thing is, though, nobody seems to want to take care of it.The book is a thriller, so there are plenty of twists, turns, explosions, and deaths at the hands of these fearful micro-automata. And in the end we learn a valuable lesson: stop messing with nature!The book itself was quite entertaining. Crichton was one of those authors with "universal appeal" that actually appeals to me. If you've liked other Crichton books about technology, you'll most likely enjoy this one as well.
    • 5/5
      Prey - Michael Crichton *****My second book by the author, the first being the very mediocre Pirates Latitude. However I have always found his subject matters interesting so decided to try another of his novels. I am very glad that I did. Prey focuses on the concept of evolution of manmade technology (in this case nanobots) and the possible effects of experiment gone awry. The majority of the novel takes place over only a few days and it is a credit to Crichtons talents that he still makes the breakneck speed of the plot totally plausible.The main concept of the novel is that a swarm of Nanobots have been released from a research facility deep in the Nevada desert. Not wanting to inform the authorities for fear of the company having funding stopped and the widespread panic, they enlist the help of former employee, computer programmer Jack Forman. However, when he arrives at the plant, things are far from as they seem. Accompanying this are numerous subplots that break up any monotony the reader may feel (although I doubt they will). The ending was slightly weaker than I would have liked and the more eagle eyed reader would have seen it coming with around 100 pages or so to go.The main aspect of the book that impressed me was the mountains of research that Crichton must have waded through. Parts of the novel felt as if they could have been written as a textbook with more than enough for a reader new to the subject to gain a grasp of the mechanics and thinking behind nanotechnology.I would recommend this to anyone familiar to Crichton or as an introduction. In my opinion it is probably lesser known due to the fact it has to stand against his other mammoth works such as Jurassic Park.
    • 4/5
      A good book that is let down a bit by the level of fiction it goes to. Also it goes into too much detail about complicated genetic "algorithms", and nanotechnology, much too advanced for a normal high-school kid. Overall, great read.
    • 5/5
      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 artificial distributed intelligence -- in a story of breathtaking suspense. 'Prey' is a novel you can't put down. Because time is running out.
    • 4/5
      Detailed study of one of the possible consequences of working with nanotechnology.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. I liked the story, how it brought the nanomachines to life. They really seamed to have a purpose to be attacking the group. The suppense and terror they brought added to the story. The fact that it involved a computer program to run the swarm and how the machines got free and started reproducing in the wild was very inresting. The climax of the story was also very interesting. How they blow up the faclity and stop the nanomachines from getting loose and destroying, basically, the world.
    • 1/5
      I hated this book so much. Crichton writes well, but he knows nothing about software or nanotech. However, it's his sexism which really makes this (and many of his other book) so bad. I only read it because I received it free, and now I regret reading it.
    • 5/5
      A mid-career, Silicon Valley couple is having marital issues. The husband lost his job for raising ethical questions, and suddenly he's the one being blackballed. His wife is working late hours every day, is becoming a stranger to her kids, and resents that her husband has not yet got back to work and accuses him of undermining her authority at home. He starts to believe she is having an affair...the signs appear unmistakable. Then he gets a phone call from his former company...they want him back as a consultant to fix something that went horribly wrong with one of his former projects. And the client happens to be his wife's company, and immediately he is dispatched to a fabrication plant in the desert where the company has seemingly overcome the problem of creating nanobots in quantity.At this point, the novel moves into the Sci-fi techno-horror realm as the nanobots escape, evolve, and learn. Creighton, as was his wont, displays a terrific grasp on the state of technology, as well as current issues and challenges employing it. There are no less than 5 pages of bibliography at the end, but Creighton keeps the science accessible (likely artificially so). It's been a long time since I've blown through a 500-page book in just two days, and even longer since finding the task so effortless. The story is recent enough that technology portrayed doesn't come off as already obsolete...a frequent problem with this type of story.
    • 3/5
      * spoiler alert ** I liked this book, it was scary with how tiny the little computer bugs were. They could get almost anywhere and then they acted like a group and could destroy anything they wanted. The end with the magnets and the wife, broke my heart. The story with the family kept my interest. It was sad the way that things change, but I'm glad at the end things were discussed between the husband and wife. The idea of the nano's is great, but control of them will be something I hope we get before we set them loose. This may be make believe, but the future is coming. Exciting and frightening at the same time
    • 4/5
      This one left me with mixed opinions. It started out like a family relationship problem then leaned toward Hitchcock like horror, and finally ending as a Frankenstein monster.He tried and mostly succeded in making the story believable. His ideas and explanations of the Hive mind ideas were fairly good. The problem is he went to a lot of trouble to make it as plausible as possible, then would throw things in that in no way shape or form could work inside the 'rules' given.The biggest problem was in the puppeteering of his wife and how it 'came' about. I think he hoped most would lump that ability in with all the other 'magic' going on. To me it just ruined the believability.
    • 3/5
      About a third of the way through this book I was really excited about the possiblilities that awaited in this story. Unfortunately, at about the same time, things started going down hill fast. Old-style Crichton stories are some of my favorite books: The Terminal Man, Eaters of the Dead, A Case of Need, and Andromeda Strain. But that was back when he was less concerned about writing stories that would look good on the “big screen” and much more concerned with story telling and character development. Terminal Man was an entire book of character development with only a thin veil of science as a stage. Prey, on the other hand, presents only the most rudimentary of character development, and those pages are merely to move the story along so that we can get to the “exciting” stuff. There is very little tension in the story between the main character and his wife, even though he suspects she is having an affair. Granted, Crichton wants there to be tension…but it just isn’t happening.And don't get me started on some of the technology bits that are just plain laughable.In the end, you know what is going to happen and, well, it goes ahead and happens. Not exactly a page-turner, but a fairly mindlessly enjoyable read for those weekend days that you don’t want to do a lot of thinking.And, Michael Crichton, if you are out there: Please forget the movie deals for one or two books and show us all why we liked you so much before you went “Jurassic II” on us.
    • 3/5
      While I have some reservations about the book, I enjoyed it and unusually for me I finished it in about 2 days. It is fast-paced: a page-turner right from the beginning, and it's packed full of interesting tid-bits from the world of science. The dark-side of nanotech is a fabulous subject for science fiction writers, so it's fertile territory for a skilled writer like Crichton. Maybe it's the literalist in me coming out, but I think he confuses the processes of evolution with the action of intelligent agents. The agents had a capacity for learning quickly which he attributed to evolution. These are related but still quite distinct processes, and his explanation didn't convince me. His characters are quite weak: I felt no empathy with any of them. It's a bit like a nanotech Jurassic Park, where humans are introduced mainly to waffle about science, scream a lot and be eaten on a regular basis.
    • 4/5
      Prey is an extremely thrilling read about what can happen when cutting-edge science is applied by the military without regards to possible consequences. In Prey, nano-technology is utilised to create a swarm of deadly micro-robots. These robots are able to reproduce, survive on solar power and have a kind of hive-mind, allowing them to become one of the deadliest predators mankind has encountered. This is a very scary novel and I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend reading it.
    • 2/5
      Interesting idea -- I could see something like that actually happening. Maybe. Ending was kind of lackluster.
    • 4/5
      Typical Crichton novel, based upon building a thrilling story around a current scientific topic. This time it's nanotechnology and the dangers inherent therein. Educational and entertaining read.
    • 4/5
      Breathtaking and speechless though I found the climax of the story similar to Jurassic Park.
    • 4/5
      One of Crichtons best I think. The suspense was great and the depth of the field covered is enormous but he explains it all very well as usual. Great read.