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Harper Collins
Posted: August 24th, 2007.
Next is the new thriller from Michael Crichton, and is the most exciting and most anticipatedpublication of summer 2007. Is your loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyoneat your dinner table of the same species?
Do you know who all your children are? Do you know humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes? And whydoes an adult human being resemble a chimp foetus?
There’s a new genetic cure for drug addiction — is it worse than the disease? Ever wanted to design yourown pet? Change the stripes on the fish in your aquarium? Ever think to sell your body fat — or donate itto charity? Or sell your eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars?
Did you know one fifth of all your genes are owned by someone else? Come to think of it, could you andyour family be pursued cross country just because you happen to have certain genes in your body? Welcome toour genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control. This is not the world of the future – it’s the worldright now. Most of the events in this book have already happened. And the rest are just around the corner.Get used to it.
About the Author:
After graduating from Harvard Medical School, Crichton embarked on a career as a writer and filmmaker. Hiscredits include `The Andromeda Strain’, `Westworld’,’ Jurassic Park’, `Prey’ and `State of Fear’ and the TVseries `ER’.
He has sold over 150 million books, translated into thirty-six languages; twelve have been made into films. Heis the only person to have had, simultaneously, the Number One book, movie and TV show in the US.
Next is available now for £6.99 in paperback.
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News page content input by Dominic Robinson, 2007.
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.