Next

A Novel

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Next (2013, Harper)

Paperback, 434 pages

English language

Published Aug. 19, 2013 by Harper.

ISBN:
9780062227195
OCLC Number:
830033152

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2 stars (1 review)

IS A LOVED ONE missing some body parts? Are blonds becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only four hundred genes; 1.3 that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should {nat worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction—is it worse than the disease?

We live in 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 t genetic maladies. We live in a time where one-fifth of all our genes are owned by some me else—and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to hue certain valuable genes within their chromosomes...

The future is closer than you think. --back cover

21 editions

reviewed Next: A Novel by Michael Crichton

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2 stars

A collection of loosely related short stories clumsily cobbled together.

Good:
Raises valid concerns about genetic engineering and US patent law.

Bad:
 Most characters appear morally wrong for no good reason. It detracts from valid criticism of corporate wrongdoers if all characters are adulterers & chauvinists.
Ending is unbelievable.
 There's almost no narrative structure to the novel.
* It should have been an essay.

Subjects

  • Fiction, suspense