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	Product Description: 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. Amazon.com Review: 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? What's coming Next? Get a hint of what Michael Crichton sees on the horizon in this short video clip: high bandwidth or low bandwidth 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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Abstract: Read this book if you want to learn a lot about the ethical/moral/practical issues related to genetic engineering in a short time. Do not read it if you expect a smooth, "idle brain" leisure-time novel.
Full review: There is a thin layer of society (scientists and few lawyers) that are aware of the deep impact of the genetic engineering on our daily life. Then there is a vast majority of people who know nothing about it or nearly nothing (i.e. obtained their knowledge from the mass media). I believe that Michael Crichton dedicated this book and last years of his life to resolve this discrepancy. If you accept this premise, you will immediately realize geniality of Crichton's approach. No scientist is able to serve you this amount of information in a way that you can consume it in a week or so (and forget about an ordinary belletrist to try to address the field of genetic engineering). Here comes Michael Crichton with his ability to study the topic into its depth (he might have it a bit easier as he has M.D. from Harvard) and make an exciting thriller out of it. He managed to address a broad field of genetic engineering in a readable form: there are a few (half dozen or so) main story lines and many other (dozen or so) marginal ones that run in parallel. Many of them intersect, some of them are unconnected to the rest, some of them come quickly and die... The book is a fiction but the issues solved in the book are as real as your daily life. The book is also packed by facts about genetics, laws related to genetics, their history etc. These facts are either embedded in the stories or presented as citations from the journals or newspapers. There is so much of material in the book that the author could have made many independent tales (or novels) of it. But that would not serve its purpose as efficiently as this book does. Believe me, this book is a treasure.
You may find many critical reviews of the book here around. That is apparently by the readers who failed to realize what is a purpose of the book and who expected the book for an easy reading (with no much thinking). True is that, with so many characters/plots in this book, time to time you have to stop reading and go some chapters back to recall the facts. That surely is disturbing for a leisure time book. However, it is just natural for a book packed with knowledge. You will be glad to do that for a great value this book brings you. This book is an eye opener.