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 and Erik Singer
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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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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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