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Next
by Michael Crichton
HarperCollins, HK$218
From the inventive mind of Michael Crichton comes a fine example of what can happen when the writer asks, what if?
Next grew from the Jurassic Park author's astonishment at the state of the law in relation to genetics when he attended a conference on the subject. That diseases could be owned, that researchers could take a person's tissue and do what they wanted with it - Crichton was sceptical. But the Harvard Medical School graduate's research, documented in a lengthy bibliography with comments on what each book has to offer, soon uncovered a frightening and strange truth.
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