New York: Harpercollins Publishers. As New in As New dust jacket. 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0060872985 . An outstanding copy of the first edition/first printing in As New/As New condition; With Next, Crichton blends fact and fiction. He explores the ethics of commercial genetic engineering, giving examples of genes being patented and sold. Your own DNA may be someone else's legal property, and, the big question, "Are blondes becoming extinct?"; 8vo .

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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.

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Bookseller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 12897
Title: Next - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author: Crichton, Michael
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: New As New in As New dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10: 0060872985
ISBN 13: 9780060872984
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2006
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction / Science Fiction; The Economics Collection; Author Collections / Crichton, Michael; Science / Medicine;

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