Prey

First off, I just want to say, Wow. I did not expect that book to end like it did. I won't spoil it for you, but the ending definitely gives a nice feeling of closure while raising some interesting questions about the overall themes of the book.

Oh, yeah, did I mention this book is about a flock of predatory nanites that are smaller several times smaller than a red blood cell? There are trillions of them in a "swarm" and they all act together using a limited but efficient intelligence; a hive mind. It truly makes for a creepy and gripping thriller. I've read Michael Crichton's most famous work, Jurassic Park, and I thoroughly enjoyed it and the ideas it presented on chaos and genetics. I do not think that Prey was darker or more chilling, I just believe it had more of a technological bent to it, a different kind of scariness if you will.

Crichton certainly knows how to write them though. I hope he is one of those writers that gets remembered favorably by academia studying American literature of the late twentieth century. You never know who is going to be remembered by scholars. I'm sure there are several people out there right now who I know nothing about who are going to be incredibly famous in retrospect in the future.

Prey was intelligent and gripping, but it is time for me to move on to Joel Garreau's Radical Evolution. I hope that it has some of the grip that Prey did, because I am going to need it to make it before the big back-to-school rush.