Next challenges our sense of REALITY and notions ofMORALITY. Balancing the COMIC and the BIZARRE with thegenuinely FRIGHTENING and OISTURBING, Next shatters ourassumptions and reveals SHOCKING new choices where weeastt exnect.

Is a loved one MISSING some BODY PARTS? Are BLONDESbecoming EXTINCT? Is everyone at your dinner table of thesame species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400genes; is that why a CHIMP FETUS resembles a human being?And should that worry us? There's a NEW GENETIC CURE FORDRUG 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 SPERMonline for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses forgenetic maladies.

We live in a time when one fifth of all OUR GENES AREOWNED by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and hisfamily can be pursued cross-country because they happen tohave certain VALUABLE genes within their chromosomes...

Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into abreathless tale of a new world where NOTHING IS WHAT ITSEEMS and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn.

ALSO BY MICHAEL CRICHTON

FICTION

The Andromeda Strain

The Terminal Man

The Great Train Robbery

Eaters of the Dead

Congo

Sphere

Jurassic Park

Rising Sun

Disclosure

The Lost World

Airframe

Timeline

Prey

State of Fear

NONFICTION

Five Patients

Jasper Johns

Electronic Life

Travels