From: Hal Finney (hal@finney.org)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2003 - 21:09:57 MDT
GTS wrote:
> My girlfriend just last night finished the fiction book _Prey_ by Michael
> Crichton. While reading it over the last week or two she spoke to me in
> general about the suspenseful "white knuckle" situations in the plot. She's
> raving about it now. She says that given her knowledge of my interests I
> must read it immediately.
We have had some discussion about this book, for example at
http://www.extropy.org/bbs/index.php?board=61;action=display;threadid=53836;start=0.
It is, as you say, about a nanotech experiment gone wrong. I thought
it was pretty bad, not at all a realistic depiction of what might go
wrong with nanotech.
Lately, Crichton's books are merely preliminaries to screenplays.
I thought his previous book, Timeline, was terrible, but it's being
made into a big budget time travel movie. Hopefully it will flop (no
dinosaurs, just medieval knights), and then Prey will have one more hurdle
to leap on its well-paved path to the movie screens. It would be a shame
if millions of movie-goers have this be their first exposure to nanotech.
Hal
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