Next

By Michael Crichton
(Harper, Mass Market Paperback, 9780060873165, 560pp.)

Publication Date: November 10, 2007

Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Paperback (February 5, 2008), Hardcover (November 28, 2006), Compact Disc (November 28, 2006)

Categories: Technological, Thrillers

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Michael Crichton's novels include Next, State of Fear, Prey, Timeline, Jurassic Park, and The Andromeda Strain. He is also known as a filmmaker and the creator of ER. One of the most popular writers in the world, he has sold over 150 million books, which have been translated into thirty-six languages; thirteen have been made into films. He remains the only writer to have had the number one book, movie, and TV show at the same time. Pirate Latitudes was discovered as a complete manuscript in his files after his death in 2008.

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"(Crichton) carouses through the landscape of scientific development, presenting one frightening possibility after another. Michael Crichton isn't for scaredybabies."
-Daily News

"Wonderful...NEXT's a regular romp."
-Evening Standard (UK)

"His plot, involving a score of main characters and a dozen different strands, defies summary but is completely brilliant."
-Daily Mail (London)

"Under Crichton's imaginative scrutiny, body-part theft, the extinction of blonds and transgenic experiments...all loom on the horizon."
-People

"Read this book. It's enough to scare the DNA out of you."
-Baton Rouge Advocate

"A cracking pace...fast-moving plot with highly detailed research."
-Sunday Telegraph (Australia)

"NEXT will frighten, worry and amuse you, and keep you thinking long after its final words are read. Highly recommended."
-Bookreporter.com

"Crichton's latest techo-thriller raises fascinating ethical questions."
-Christian Science Monitor

"NEXT is populated with blood-pressure-raising villains who will keep you turning the pages."
-Forbes

"Crichton addresses complex contemporary issues...into thrilling reads."
-Newsweek

"A cracking dark tale about biotechnology and transgenics. Epic in style."
-Birmingham Post (UK)

"[Crichton] is a punchy, modern storyteller. NEXT is a popular thriller worth serious reading."
-Adelaide Advertiser

"A complex and credible extension of present reality into the realm of the imagination. A highly readable novel."
-South China Morning Post

"It is devilishly clever...thoroughly enjoyable."
-Aberdeen Press & Journal [Scotland]

"NEXT is one of Mr. Crichton's more un-put-downable novels. Its emphasis is on excitement."
-New York Times

"[Crichton's] latest is in genetics and his literary success is assured."
-Mail on Sunday

"A satirical thriller that will have bookworms glued to their armchairs."
-Denver Post

"[NEXT] is a tribute to Crichton's storytelling skill...the docmentation he sprinkles throughout the narrative teases us with speculation."
-Los Angeles Times

"Crichton has created a series of vivid, thought-provoking morality plays, presenting key questions engendered by genetic research."
-Globe and Mail (Toronto)

"As entertaining as anything he has written since Jurassic Park."
-Dallas Morning News

"(Crichton) is one of the most reliable purveyors of brain-engaged popular fiction at work today."
-Sunday Express (London)

"Provocative and entertaining."
-Calgary Sun

"Crichton sets up mind-boggling scenarios. The pace and intrigue last to the final page."
-News of the World (UK)

"The writing is mentally sharp, with vignettes that make you wonder if you are reading satire or simply mild exagerration."
-Houston Chronicle

"NEXT is a romp and a potboiler...a blockbuster science thriller...an entertaining read."
-Philadelphia Inquirer

"A compulsively readable beach book about the dawn of the biotech revolution."
-National Review

"Crichton creates a series of fascinating dramatic situations that hold a reader's attention right down to the last page."
-NPR (All Things Considered)

"You realize what [Crichton]'s fictionalizing could be happening now, not "Next." And that's what makes it all so terrifying."
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"[Crichton] invites a mass audience irresistibly into some of the Most Important Conversations We're Not Having."
-Time magazine

"NEXT is a page-turner, natuarlly; deft and dashing, eminently professional. "
-Daily Telegraph (London)

"[Crichton's] in top form with NEXT....There's a lot to like and to scare you."
-USA Today