[AGThePoet]

Hey I just read <u>Prey</u> by Micheal Cricthon. It is a fiction book based on the dangers of self-evolving nanobots. As it says on the inside cover:

"In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horibly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles- microrobots- has escaped from the labratory. This cloud is sulf-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive.
It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour.
Every attempt to destroy it has failed.
And we are the prey."

This book provides a fascinating look at how A.I. could evolve within the human labratory accidently, and how deadly it could be if it goes on unchecked. For everyone who likes science fiction!


AGThePoet

[Tormod]

Thanks for the tip, AG, I haven't read a single Chrichton novel myself since I read "Sphere" back in 1989 (and a scary book it was...too bad the movie sucks).

I am currently reading Richard Morgan's second novel, Broken Angel. It is futuristic hard SF where a team of soldiers are on a commercial mission to find a gateway made by an alien race. Some of their "friends" made them bring along a sample of nanotech grey goo - which turns out to be a sentient lump of matter which primary instinct is to build up defences against anything it meets. So when it starts attacking people - it simply won't die, it just adapts...and it gets very ugly...great stuff.

By the way, Richard Morgan's first novel, Altered Carbon, was perhaps the best debut novel I've ever read!

Tormod