"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 a chimp fetus resembles an adult 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 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. We live in a new world where nothing is what it seems. The future is closer than you think."
So go the words of the first page of Michael Crichtons book, NEXT. This is the introduction to the novel, and presents many mind-twisting questions that many people ponder, but never realize the strangeness of the world we live in. What is the story about? Will the book be about the future, as a historical account? Or will it be about a certain person's story taking place in this future? What do all of these questions have to do with the story?
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