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Published Nov 2006
448 pages
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control. This is not the world of the future--it's the world right now.
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; test our spouses for genetic maladies and even frame someone for a genetic crime.
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 .... The future is closer than you think. Get used to it.
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Writer and filmmaker, Michael Crichton (Oct 23, 1942 - Nov 4, 2008), best
known as the author of Jurassic Park and the creator of ER,
was born in Chicago and grew up on Long Island, New York.
Apparently, his writing career began with turning out school assignments for
classmates. At Harvard he switched his major from English to anthropology,
having fooled a professor he believed was grading him unfairly by submitting an
essay by George Orwell under his own name, which the professor awarded a low B.
He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, received his MD from Harvard
Medical School, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for
Biological Studies. He taught courses in anthropology at Cambridge University
and writing at MIT.
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