Description: "His plot, involving a score of main characters and a dozen different strands, defies summary but is completely brilliant." - Daily Mail (London) "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 "A cracking dark tale about biotechnology and transgenics. Epic in style." - Birmingham Post (UK) "Crichton addresses complex contemporary issues...into thrilling reads." - Newsweek "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) carouses through the landscape of scientific development, presenting one frightening possibility after another. Michael Crichton isn''t for scaredybabies." - Daily News "[Crichton] is a punchy, modern storyteller. NEXT is a popular thriller worth serious reading." - Adelaide Advertiser "In his latest work of fiction, Mr. Crichton has embraced the subject of genetic technology, and the results are as entertaining as anything he has written since Jurassic Park." - Dallas Morning News "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) "Provocative and entertaining." - Calgary Sun "NEXT is populated with blood-pressure-raising villains who will keep you turning the pages." - Forbes "[Crichton''s] latest is in genetics and his literary success is assured." - Mail on Sunday "What makes Mr. Crichton stand out from other novels is his uncanny prescience in choosing subjects where fact will soon catch up with his fiction." - Wall Street Journal "NEXT is a romp and a potboiler...a blockbuster science thriller...an entertaining read." - Philadelphia Inquirer "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 "Under Crichton''s imaginative scrutiny, body-part theft, the extinction of blonds and transgenic experiments...all loom on the horizon." - People "[Crichton] performs a service when he acts on his belief that science is too important to leave to the scientists and he invites a mass audience irresistibly into some of the Most Important Conversations We''re Not Having." - Time magazine "[Crichton] invites a mass audience irresistibly into some of the Most Important Conversations We''re Not Having." - Time magazine "Wonderful...NEXT''s a regular romp." - Evening Standard (UK) "[Crichton''s] in top form with NEXT....There''s a lot to like and to scare you." - USA Today "It is devilishly clever...thoroughly enjoyable." - Aberdeen Press & Journal [Scotland] "The techno-thriller''s interlocking tales may seem far-fetched, but [Crichton] has a mountain of data backing him up. You realize what he''s fictionalizing could be happening now, not "Next." And that''s what makes it all so terrifying." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "You realize what [Crichton]''s fictionalizing could be happening now, not "Next." And that''s what makes it all so terrifying." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "A compulsively readable beach book about the dawn of the biotech revolution." - National Review

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