Micro : a novel / Michael Crichton and Richard Preston.
Three men are found dead in the locked second-floor office of a Honolulu building, with no sign of struggle except for the ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed robot, nearly invisible to the human eye. In the lush forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology has ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Trillions of microorganisms, tens of thousands of bacteria species, are being discovered; they are feeding a search for priceless drugs and applications on a scale beyond anything previously imagined. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students at the forefront of their fields are recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up. Nanigen MicroTechnologies dispatches the group to a mysterious lab in Hawaii, where they are promised access to tools that will open a whole new scientific frontier. But once in the Oahu rain forest, the scientists are thrust into a hostile wilderness that reveals profound and surprising dangers at every turn. Armed only with their knowledge of the natural world, they find themselves prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power. To survive, they must harness the inherent forces of nature itself.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780060873059 (lg. print : trade pbk.)
- Physical Description: xi, 607 p. (large print) : map ; 23 cm.
- Edition: 1st HarperLuxe ed.
- Publisher: New York : HarperLuxe, c2011.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Subject: | Microbiologists > Fiction. Nanotechnology > Fiction. Bacteria > Fiction. Large type books. Oahu (Hawaii) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Suspense fiction. Techno-thriller. Science fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Fort St. James Public Library.
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Fort St. James Public Library | LP CRI (Text) | 35196000265194 | LP AF | Volume hold | Available | - |