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Program Type: Audiobook (Fiction); Unabridged
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Narrator:
Dylan Baker
Publisher:
Harper Audio, 2006
Length: 13 hours and 54 min.
Audio Format:
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 or 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 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. |
