Micro
(2011)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/CRICHTON,M

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Details

PUBLISHED
New York : HarperCollins, 2011
EDITION
[Various editions]
DESCRIPTION

xiii, 429 pages : map ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780060873028 :, 0060873027 :, 9781443406406, 1443406406, 9780060873172, 0060873027 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Also published: New York : Harper, [2012], c2011. 536 p

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

HL700L

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