# Prey

**Author(s):** Michael Crichton
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/prey/verdict.json
**Genres:** technology, sci-fi, literary-fiction, thriller
**Pages:** 634
**Publisher:** HarperCollins Publishers
**Published:** Sun Jan 01 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780739431382
**ISBN-10:** 0739431382
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/prey

## Description

Prey is a novel by Michael Crichton, his thirteenth under his own name and twenty-third overall, first published in November 2002, making his first novel of the twenty-first century. The novel serves as a cautionary tale about developments in science and technology; in this case, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, and distributed artificial intelligence.

The book features relatively new advances in the computing/scientific community, such as artificial life, emergence (and by extension, complexity), genetic algorithms, and agent-based computing. Fields such as population dynamics and host-parasite coevolution are also at the heart of the novel.


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Contains:
[Prey [1/2]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28766164W)
[Prey [2/2]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28766161W)

Also contained in:
[Reader's Digest Condensed Books](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL26430990W)

## SageChimp reader verdict

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- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/prey/verdict.json

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**Themes:** Artificial Intelligence