Simon's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 17 May 2013 07:55:55 -0700 60 Simon's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Next 7661 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 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 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. Get used to it.

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431 Michael Crichton 0060872985 Simon 4 3.54 2006 Next
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Gridlock 242252 448 Ben Elton 0552154490 Simon 3 3.59 1991 Gridlock
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average rating: 3.59
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Life of Pi 4214 460 Yann Martel 0770430074 Simon 4 3.94 2001 Life of Pi
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Les Misérables 24280 1463 Victor Hugo 0451525264 Simon 0 currently-reading 4.19 1862 Les Misérables
author: Victor Hugo
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average rating: 4.19
book published: 1862
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