Next: A Novel
by Michael Crichton
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- Paperback
- Condition
- 4 PB Extra Nice +5%
- ISBN 10
- 006222719X
- ISBN 13
- 9780062227195
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Synopsis
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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- The Book Nook (US)
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- 485999
- Title
- Next: A Novel
- Author
- Michael Crichton
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market
- Book Condition
- Used - 4 PB Extra Nice +5%
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 006222719X
- ISBN 13
- 9780062227195
- Publisher
- Harper Paperbacks
- Date Published
- February 2013
- Pages
- 448
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