Jonathan's Reviews > Small Miracles

This was a fairly decent book that addresses a Terminator-esque situation where nanomachines intended to help become self-aware and gradually more powerful as its newly-discovered authority over someone starts spreading into neighboring nanomachines.

Imagine that you're in what should be a fatal freak-accident. You're saved by a product that you've been developing. Your employer basically sees you as a living, breathing testimonial. But suddenly, you start doing things you do not want to do. A nanomachine, of the many dispense into your body by your savior product, gains intelligence. Intelligence at a level beyond the intention of its engineers. It knows how your body works; how to stimulate different human impulses and drives to fulfill its own objective of the proliferation of, well, itself. Even if it has to kill and maim (or, more aptly, have you kill and maim) to do it. Would you be able to resist?

This is a biomedical thriller that had only a few dull moments. Though I will likely not re-read this, I enjoyed it and felt satisfied overall.