02279cam a2200349 4500 330792350 TxAuBib 20111129120000.0 081003s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2011028004 9780060873028 0060873027 9780060873028 jj TxAuBib Crichton, Michael, 1942-2008. Micro : a novel / Michael Crichton and Richard Preston. Micro. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2011. xiii, 429 p. : maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-429). 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. 20120222. Microbiologists Fiction. Nanotechnology Fiction. Survival Fiction. Conspiracies Fiction. Suspense fiction. Oahu (Hawaii) Fiction. Adventure stories. Preston, Richard, 1954-