Next

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Michael Crichton: Next (2007, HarperTorch)

Mass Market Paperback, 560 pages

Langue : English

Publié 13 novembre 2007 par HarperTorch.

ISBN :
978-0-06-087316-5
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Numéro OCLC :
181941831

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Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control. This is not the world of the future—it’s the world right now. 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 an adult human being resembles a chimp fetus? 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; test our spouses for genetic maladies and even frame someone for a genetic crime. 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 …

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  • Technological
  • Thrillers
  • General
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Espionage / Thriller