Vasco Borden, fort-nine, tugged at the lapels of his suit and straightened his tie as he walked down the plush carpeted hallway.
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Next
A Novel
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by Michael Crichton
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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.
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blondes, Neanderthals, Cro-magnons, hybrids, press releases, conservation, environmentalists, patents, adventurers, tranquilizers, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, respiratory tract infections, dissection, skulls, avant-garde, genetic engineering, bioluminescence, advertising agencies, orangutans, lay preachers, amusement parks, addiciton, Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, slavery, wing clipping, precedent, shotguns, sexual intercourse, grey parrots, homework, Wikipedia, social grooming, animal euthanasia, chimpanzees, bounty hunters, leukemia, biotechnology, startup companies, eminent domain, venture capital, techno-thriller, genetic research, transgenic animals, thrillers, suspense, science fiction, action & adventure, technological thrillers, mutation, scientists, legal stories, parrots, apes, biology, Literature, Genetics, evolution, Lawyers, Fiction, Mutation (Biology), Suspense fiction, Fiction, technological, Fiction, thrillers, Large type books, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, suspense, New York Times reviewed, American Suspense fiction, Fiction, medical, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, technologicalShowing 10 featured editions. View all 44 editions?
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Next is a 2006 satirical techno-thriller by Michael Crichton. It was the fifteenth novel under his own name and his twenty-fifth overall, and the last to be published during his lifetime.
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