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.
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- ISBN: 9780060873028
- ISBN: 0060873027
- ISBN: 9780060873172
- ISBN: 9781443406406
- ISBN: 1443406406
- ISBN: 9780062227188
- ISBN: 9780007424948
- Physical Description: xiii, 429 pages ; 24 cm xiii, 536 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Harper, 2011.
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- Maps on lining papers.Publisher, dates, and pagination may vary.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-429).
- Target Audience Note:
- HL700L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 5.7 13 SD Quiz 136617 English fiction.
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