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    Micro

    Michael Crichton, Richard Preston, Preston, Richard · 1805

    An instant classic in the vein of Jurassic Park, this boundary-pushing novel has all the hallmarks of Michael Crichton s greatest adventures with its combination of pulse-pounding thrills, cutting-edge technology, and extraordinary research. Three men are found dead in a locked second-floor office in Honolulu. There is no sign of struggle, though their bodies are covered in ultra-fine, razor sharp cuts. With no evidence, the police dismiss it as a bizarre suicide pact. But the murder weapon is still in the room, almost invisible to the human eye. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students at the forefront of their fields are recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up company. Nanigen MicroTechnologies sends them to a mysterious laboratory in Hawaii, where they are promised access to tools that will open up a whole new scientific frontier. But this opportunity of a lifetime will teach them the true cost of existing at the cutting edge... The group becomes prey to a technology of radical, unimaginable power and is thrust out into the teeming rainforest. Armed only with their knowledge of the natural world, the young scientists face a hostile wilderness that threatens danger at every turn. To survive, they must harness the awe-inspiring creative and destructive forces of nature itself.

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    What Hacker News says

    1. pdxJun 2012
      I just listened to 'Micro', Michael Crichton's last book (completed by another author after his death) http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B00687OAI2&qid...

      That book taught me a ton about the different physics that apply "in the micro world" that insects inhabit. The physics of falling and of water tension at that scale are so different than we are used to.

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    2. sebmellenDec 2024
      Has anyone here read Micro or Prey by Michael Crichton?

      > 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.

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    3. mrlonglongDec 2021
      Years ago I read a book "Micro", published posthumously by Michael Crichton. This book describes what happens when people are downsized and things like millipedes are big enough to pose a serious risk of death.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_(novel)

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    4. dghfAug 2015
      Micro, his last novel, was utterly, truly dreadful. But it was posthumously completed by another author (Richard Preston, who wrote The Hot Zone, which I really enjoyed, in a freaked-out way), so I don't know where the blame should lie.
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