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By Michael Crichton

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| Hardcover | 9780060872984

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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 Continue

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.

Critics

  • Next

    Next di Michael Crichton, romanzo edito da Garzanti. Accumuliamo ogni giorno scoperte scientifiche straordinarie e vediamo applicare tecnologie incredibili. Vendiamo ovuli e sperma a caro prezzo via Internet. Possiamo sottoporre il nostro partner a u ... (read full critics)

    Qlibri published on Tue, 23 Nov 2010

  • Genetic Park

    Though the moment may lack the inherent gravitas of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s encounter with Abraham Lincoln, or even Elvis Presley’s private audience with Richard Nixon, surely history should reserve a special place for the day in 2005 when Michael Cr ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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    Dear Mr. Crichton,

    More story, less preaching please.

    Thank you

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    Kevin Kuphal said on Jul 6, 2007 | Add your feedback

  • 1 person find this helpful

    Bologna or prophecy?

    Not as gripping as most other Crichton novels and yet quite a page turner none the less, even if with some weak moments. What is to me at the same time very interesting and VERY scary is that this man is the one who started talking about cloning (Jurassic Park) YEARS before Dolly the sheep and quite ... (continue)

    Not as gripping as most other Crichton novels and yet quite a page turner none the less, even if with some weak moments. What is to me at the same time very interesting and VERY scary is that this man is the one who started talking about cloning (Jurassic Park) YEARS before Dolly the sheep and quite a number of time has been rather profetical in his books. So I guess it is up to you whether to read it just for fun thinking it's a bunch of bologna or also give it soe serious thinking.

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    NickBert said on Oct 19, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • It took me a long while to finish this book which didn't unfold as excitingly or overwhelmingly as Michael Crichton’s earlier novels. And it doesn’t seem as finished. It’s full of fragmented storylines and too many characters in flat personalities which you can't even neither recognize them fro ... (continue)

    It took me a long while to finish this book which didn't unfold as excitingly or overwhelmingly as Michael Crichton’s earlier novels. And it doesn’t seem as finished. It’s full of fragmented storylines and too many characters in flat personalities which you can't even neither recognize them from one another nor remember what they’ve done in previous chapters.
    However, I still very much enjoyed Michael Crichton's preaching as usual. And it's fun and thrilling to read all those episodes about the possibilities of where the genetic engineering will eventually lead us to.
    It would be quite lonely being in this unethical real world without the company of Mr. Crichton. And I’m starting to miss him now.

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    Aki said on Nov 14, 2010 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

  • A brillian tale on genetics and ethics. Fast-paced and horrific, it gives some interesting insights regarding gene-patenting, gene-business and gene-profit.

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    Arkham said on Dec 14, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • The story is too fragmented. There is not a group of "great plots" but small episodes. Probably this is good if you read it while commuting, but leaves the impression of an unfinished book.

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    Luigi Rosa said on Aug 15, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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