Nightstrike's Reviews: Micro

Presently ripping my hair out, because the print of NS-001 failed, so I'll be trying again soon, hopefully to get it to work this time...

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Continuing with my brief Michael Crichton kick, Micro is the final book he wrote, and was coauthored by Richard Preston, following Crichton's passing in 2008. Following his usual trend, Micro focuses on theoretical technology, which in this case would be byproducts of industrialization, or more specifically, tensor fields. For those unfamiliar with the term, a tensor field is effectively a means of impacting other forms of energy, and can nullify magnetic fields.

Today, the idea is still very much just a concept, but in Micro it has very much become a reality. Nanigen MicroTechnologies, a rapidly growing private company has taken to exploiting this technology to explore the microscopic world, and will do anything to remain in their position of power. However, seven graduate students from Cambridge may prove problematic for this company, and the head of it, Vincent Drake. After a mysterious accident involving one student's sibling, suspicions start to rise that there is more to Nanigen's "nanotechnology" than simple manufacturing. Soon, these students are thrust into a world familiar, yet dangerous as they struggle to survive.

Micro reminded me greatly of films like "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids" (for fairly obvious reasons), but with a definitively darker twist. That being said, it would have been interesting to see some sort of continuation, as I'm not a major fan of cliffhangers.

Overall Rating: 7/10