Micro
A Novel
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3.6 • 118 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
In a locked office building in Honolulu, three men are found dead, with no sign of struggle except for ultrafine, razorsharp cuts covering their bodies.
In the lush rain forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology has ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Here seven brilliant graduate students, recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up company, are thrust into a hostile wilderness that reveals profound and surprising dangers at every turn. Prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power—armed only with their knowledge of the natural world—they must harness the inherent forces of nature itself to survive.
Melding scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction in vintage Michael Crichton fashion—completed by visionary science writer Richard Preston—Micro is an instant classic of sophisticated, cutting-edge entertainment.
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Does this sound at all familiar? A greedy capitalist exploits a technological breakthrough that could benefit humanity. His effort to show off his work to visitors on an island ends up with them fighting for their lives against savage creatures. Preston (The Hot Zone) has completed a partial manuscript by bestseller Crichton (1942 2008) that will remind many readers of Jurassic Park, though the action takes place on a rather different scale, as the title suggests. Peter Jansen, a 23-year-old Cambridge, Mass., grad student, and his colleagues accept an invitation from his older brother, Eric, and Eric s boss to join NaniGen MicroTechnologies, a Hawaii-based concern with tools that will define the limits of discovery for the first half of the twenty-first century. Via a scientific innovation that comes across as less plausible than recovering dinosaur DNA, NaniGen can miniaturize people. Inevitably, Peter and his companions are shrunk to a size that makes them vulnerable to lower life forms. Most of the book relates their struggle for survival, including the requisite gory deaths of some members of the party. Crichton fans will miss any sense of a larger scientific moral in what amounts to a high-tech 21st-century version of The Incredible Shrinking Man.
Customer Reviews
Micro Thrills
Not quite a great Crichton novel, and not even a great Preston book... But the technology is cool, even if the characters and story are boring and predictable.
Tarnish on Crichton’s Record
This is so bad, do not purchase. A college version of ‘Hunny I shrunk the kids’ with poorly written one dimensional characters, a plot full of holes, and bluntly crammed full of entomology facts. Clearly a bare bones idea pulled from out of the trash bin of the poor deceased. What a shame to tarnish a usually good author’s name.
Micro-great sc-fi combined with actual biological facts
A great sci-fi story with non stop action. Somewhat like Jurassic Park, but on a nano scale.
I really hope Hollywood makes a movie based on this book. It will be on a par with Jurassic Park entertainment wise.