Prey

Rating:
Summary: Two Thumbs Up!!!!!!
Review: Let me tell you, I was so hooked the first 50 or so pages, I couldn't stop reading.

I thought this whole "nanotechnology" business was fascinating...I couldn't get enough of it. As you're reading, you yourself will imagine dozens of horrific ways this sort of stuff can go awry. Thinking back to "Jurassic Park", he does something similar: a cutting-edge, just-in-the future technology that has one obvious but still quite interesting focus (dino-DNA cloning), and then takes you on a rollercoaster that springboards from that initial conceit.

This book has that locomotive start. You learn more and more about these swarms and computing technologies that seem ominous and powerful and mysterious.

Then, and fairly suddenly, the plot devolves into a sub-standard B-movie scenario.

You know, a group of people, isolated, with "something out there."

Ooh...run outside! Quick! Get back inside!

I dunno...I just expected so much more from the way this novel opened...something more disturbing, I guess. It seems that the misuse of what Crichton describes could go so way beyond what is conjured here, this seems slight.

Halfway through you'll think this might make a cool movie. Then you think, well, maybe a TV mini-series or something.

Now I think (hope) this is merely a prequel to something far more sinister and suspenseful.