Detailed item info Synopsis In the middle of the Nevada desert, scientists work on the development of nanotechnologies to help all of mankind. But when an accident unleashes the microscopic machines into the outside world, humans find themselves facing an enemy that is not only smaller than any previously seen, but smarter.... Key Details Author: Michael Crichton Language: English Publisher: Avon Books Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0061015725 ISBN-13: 9780061015724 Size Length: 528 pages Thickness: 1.8 in Weight: 8.8 oz Publisher's Note 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. Deep in the remote Nevada desert, eight people are trapped inside of the Xymos Corporation by a rapidly evolving swarm of predatory molecules that have massed together to form a powerful and intelligent organism that is targeting its creators. Deep in the remote Nevada desert, eight people are trapped inside of the Xymos Corporation, a state-of-the-art fabrication plant, by a self-replicating, rapidly evolving swarm comprised of predatory molecules that they themselves had created and that have massed together to form a powerful and intelligent organism that is targeting its creators. Reprint. Portions of this page Copyright 1995 - 2012 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.

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