Michael Crichton: Next (2013, Harper)
Paperback, 434 pages
English language
Published Aug. 19, 2013 by Harper.
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
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
What stuck with me is the turtle. Ad companies knew that normal ads don't work anymore because people ignore them. But a turtle with words glowing on it's shell, yeah. A person is gonna remember that.
What stuck with me is the turtle. Ad companies knew that normal ads don't work anymore because people ignore them. But a turtle with words glowing on it's shell, yeah. A person is gonna remember that.
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.
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.
