Next

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

Publication Date: November 10, 2007

Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover

Categories: Technological, Thrillers

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MICHAEL CRICHTON’s novels include Pirate Latitudes, 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.

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

“Read this book. It’s enough to scare the DNA out of you.”
-Baton Rouge Advocate

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

“Wonderful...NEXT’s a regular romp.”
-Evening Standard (UK)

“Provocative and entertaining.”
-Calgary Sun

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

“Crichton addresses complex contemporary issues...into thrilling reads.”
-Newsweek

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

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

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

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

“[Crichton’s] latest is in genetics and his literary success is assured.”
-Mail on Sunday

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Crichton’s latest techo-thriller raises fascinating ethical questions.”
-Christian Science Monitor

“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]

“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)

“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

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

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

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