From Michael Crichton, the #1 bestselling author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, comes a devilishly clever, breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and genetic ownership shatters our assumptions.Welcome to our genetic world.Fast, furious, and out of control.This is not the world of the future--it's the world right now.Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blonds becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only four hundred genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? 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 and to 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....The future is closer than you think.
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Crichton, Michael
Michael Crichton é escritor, médico, produtor e diretor de televisão. Nascido nos Estados Unidos, cursou medicina na Universidade de Harvard e se formou Doutor em Políticas Públicas. Porém, foi na carreira de escritor que obteve destaque. Seu primeiro best-seller, Enigma de Andrômeda, foi escrito enquanto Crichton ainda estava cursando a faculdade. Seus trabalhos mais conhecidos são os romances da série Jurassic Park, adaptados para o cinema por Steven Spielberg e a série de televisão ER. |