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By Michael Crichton
Next
In his brilliant new blockbuster, the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Jurassic Park" and "The Andromeda Strain" journeys into the realm of genetics: fast, furious and out of control. Provocative yet playful, dark and disturbing, "Next" is Crichton as he has never been seen before.
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Authors:
Michael Crichton
Copyright:
2006
Format:
Hardcover
GTIN13:
9780060872984
ISBN10:
0060872985
Page Count:
448
Dimensions:
6.52x1.41x9.28
Publisher:
HarperCollinsPublishers
Strand Notes
Michael Crichton, the author who changed the course of American literature with "Jurassic Park" and "The Andromeda Strain," returns with a thrilling novel about a future much closer than you think. Inspired by the dramatic turn of events in the field of genetic manipulation, Crichton has composed a work that takes us to the edge of modern science and explores what will happen if we lose our moral footing and go sliding head-first into the chasm of chromosomes. At once challenging our sense of reality and questioning our ethics, "Next" is an odd, frightening, disturbing, and often hilarious novel about the current state of medical testing and the dark areas that lurk just around the test tube.
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Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction--is it worse than the disease?
We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies.
We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes . . .
Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn.
Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and the bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect.
The future is closer than you think.
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