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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...
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 the 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.

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During the grand opening celebration of the new American headquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body of a beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins, and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue and a violent business battle that takes no prisoners.
During the grand opening celebration of the new American headquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body of a beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins, and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue and a violent business battle that takes no prisoners.

In a novel set within the arena of volatile Japanese-American relations, business moguls compete for control of the international electronics industry.

如果你的身體細胞，變成別人的私有財產，只因他合法擁有你的「基因專利」，你該無條件服從嗎？
急速發展中的基因研究工程，將為全人類帶來醫療的曙光，還是像「潘朵拉盒子」般，造成法律、倫理、人權、甚至人性的崩壞？
比《侏羅紀公園》更驚悚的「基因失控的世界」，
它不是未來，而是現在！我們，可能終將無所遁逃……
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想和別人來往嗎？那已經被申請專利了！哥倫比亞大學的研究者最近宣稱他們發現了社交性基因，並提出專利申請。據說瑞士的大製藥廠都加入競標，希望能買到這個基因的使用權。接下來會有什麼奇奇怪怪的基因出現呢？害羞基因？隱居基因？僧侶基因？有沒有「不要來煩我」基因？
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「我發現葛羅士醫生把我的細胞賣了出去──他在做檢驗時從我身上拿的細胞──賣給一家叫做生物基因的製藥公司。」
「當你聽到這個消息時，有什麼感覺？」
「我很震驚。我去看葛羅士醫生時我在生病，我很害怕。我相信我的醫生，我把我的生命交到他手上。我信任他。我沒有想到他竟然欺騙我，毫無必要的讓我擔驚受怕這麼多年，就是為了讓他可以偷我身體的細胞去賺錢。他從來沒有顧慮到我，他只是想從我身上拿細胞。」
「你知道那些細胞的價值嗎？」
「製藥公司說三十億美元。」
陪審員個個都倒吸了一口涼氣。
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《NEXT危基當前》揉合事實和虛構，在令人難以喘息的故事中新的世界不同於所見，挑戰我們對真實性的感覺、對道德的看法；巧妙平衡滑稽與無稽，使你感受到真正的恐懼和不安；打碎了我們的假設，在最後沒有預料到的地方顯露出令人震撼的新選擇。

A billionaire has created a technique to clone dinosaurs. From the DNA that his crack team of scientists extract, he is able to grow the dinosaurs in his laboratories and lock them away on an island behind electric fences, creating a sort of theme park. He asks a group of scientists from several different fields to come and view the park, but something goes terribly wrong when a worker on the island turns traitor and shuts down the power.

Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name—and spawned a new genre, the technothriller—the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant.
The Evolution is Coming.
In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle—designated The Andromeda Strain—killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. In the moments before a catastrophic nuclear detonation, they succeeded.
In the ensuing decades, research on the microparticle continued. And the world thought it was safe…
Deep inside Fairchild Air Force Base, Project Eternal Vigilance has continued to watch and wait for the Andromeda Strain to reappear. On the verge of being shut down, the project has registered no activity—until now. A Brazilian terrain-mapping drone has detected a bizarre anomaly of otherworldly matter in the middle of the jungle, and, worse yet, the tell-tale chemical signature of the deadly microparticle.
With this shocking discovery, the next-generation Project Wildfire is activated, and a diverse team of experts hailing from all over the world is dispatched to investigate the potentially apocalyptic threat.
But the microbe is growing—evolving. And if the Wildfire team can’t reach the quarantine zone, enter the anomaly, and figure out how to stop it, this new Andromeda Evolution will annihilate all life as we know it.

外表溫和、平凡的電腦工程師班森，在一次車禍意外後開始出現毫無預警的狂暴攻擊行為，因此遭到警方的逮捕與監控。洛杉磯大學附屬醫院神經精神醫學研究室的醫療團隊相信，班森的突發性暴力傾向是來自於腦部的外傷，可以透過精神外科手術治癒。這種極專業的實驗性手術會在患者腦部植入微型電腦，讀取並控制大腦訊號，矯正腦傷造成的異常行為。
手術順利完成，研發多年的新技術即將改寫人類醫療史，同時，一場電腦與人腦的控制權爭奪戰，正激烈地展開……
克萊頓生前發表的16部小說中，《終端人》是唯一從未授權繁體中譯本出版之作。
利用電子晶片刺激腦部的手術，不只是出現在小說跟電影之中，這些研究曾一度飽受批評而銷聲匿跡，由於神經科學的進步，又再度捲土重來，相關報導及介紹請見：sa.ylib.com/read/readshow.asp?FDocNo=775&DocNo=1260腦晶片X檔案、ntuh.mc.ntu.edu.tw/ntuhpd/index.htm深腦刺激術。

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price.

Until something goes wrong. . . .

In Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller.

"A page-turner...Chichton's writing is cinematic, with powerful visual images and nonstop action. This book should come with hot buttered popcorn."
NEWSWEEK
A group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the ocean floor in the middle of the South Pacific. What they find defines their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently, undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old....
"The suspense is real."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. When Michael Crichton -- a Harvard-trained physician, bestselling novelist, and successful movie director -- began to feel isolated in his own life, he decided to widen his horizons. He tracked wild animals in the jungles of Rwanda. He climbed Kilimanjaro and Mayan pyramids. He trekked across a landslide in Pakistan. He swam amid sharks in Tahiti. Fueled by a powerful curiosity and the need to see, feel, and hear firsthand and close-up, Michael Crichton has experienced adventures as compelling as those he created in his books and films. These adventures -- both physical and spiritual -- are recorded here in Travels, Crichton's most astonishing and personal work.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The novel that redefined the science fiction genre, starring a team of scientists who must uncover what killed the citizens of a sleepy desert town—and stop the deadly contagion before it creates a catastrophe.

"I love anything Michael Crichton writes."—Stephen King

A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant.

The United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency response protocol. Four of the nation’s most elite biophysicists are summoned to a clandestine underground laboratory located five stories beneath the desert and fitted with an automated atomic self-destruction mechanism for cases of irremediable contamination. Under conditions of total news blackout and the utmost urgency, the scientists race to understand and contain the crisis. But the Andromeda Strain proves different from anything they’ve ever seen—and what they don’t know could not only hurt them, but lead to unprecedented worldwide catastrophe.

In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. As fresh as today's headlines, Michael Crichton's most compelling novel yet tells the story of a mechanical plague and the desperate efforts of a handful of scientists to stop it. Drawing on up-to-the-minute scientific fact, takes us into the emerging realms of nanotechnology and artificial distributed intelligence -- in a story of breathtaking suspense. Read by Robert Sean Leonard Introduction read by Michael Crichton

From New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton, a classic, epic tale of unspeakable horror—now available in trade paperback.  The year is A.D. 922.  A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Bagdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs—the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness…their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth: He has been enlisted by these savage, inscrutable warriors to help combat a terror that plagues them—a monstrosity that emerges under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh.

Numa remota ilha da Costa Rica, a multinacional de engenharia genética InGen prepara-se para assombrar o mundo com o mais fantástico parque turístico que a humanidade já conheceu. Recorrendo a avançadíssimas técnicas de reconstituição de DNA, sua equipe de cientistas conseguiu nada mais, nada menos do que produzir… dinossauros vivos! No entanto, quando o paleontólogo Alan Grant chega a Isla Nublar, encontra evidências de que o projeto não é tão perfeito quanto se imaginava. Há algo de muito estranho acontecendo com as gigantescas criaturas pré históricas…

Tudo indica que estão prestes a se tornar uma ameaça que nem mesmo os supercomputadores da InGen conseguirão evitar!

Em O parque dos dinossauros, Michael Crichton cria um thriller hipnotizante, que discute o perigo das pesquisas científicas conduzidas de forma irresponsável. Este marco da ficção científica contemporânea foi adaptado para o cinema por Steven Spielberg, com enorme sucesso de bilheteria.

En esta espectacular novela, los dinosaurios vuelven a conquistar la Tierra. En una isla remota, un grupo de hombres y mujeres emprende una carrera contra el tiempo para evitar un desastre mundial provocado por la desmedida ambición de comercializar la ingeniería genética. Pero todos los esfuerzos resultarán vanos cuando el inescrupuloso proyecto quede fuera de control y el mundo a merced de unas bestias monstruosas...

Parque jurásico , la novela más célebre de Michael Crichton y una de las más leídas en los últimos años, fue adaptada al cine por Steven Spielberg en una película que se convirtió en el gran acontecimiento cinematográfico de 1993 y en el origen del fenómeno de masas llamado «dinomanía».

The dinosaur is back on earth—alive, now, in Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park.

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price.

Until something goes wrong...

In 'Jurassic Park', Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller. The story, told with an almost documentary verisimilitude, is an account of the attempt, through a hair-raising twenty-four hours on a remote jungle island, to avert a global emergency—a crisis triggered by today's headlong rush (virtually unchecked by any government or scientific watchdogs) to commercialize genetic engineering.


Michael Crichton
(1942–2008) makes a brilliant and captivating use of the unique amalgam of suspense and informed science (this time paleontology, biotechnology, and chaos theory) that he originated in 'The Andromeda Strain' (1969) . Of all his superb scientific thrillers—all of them best-sellers— 'Jurassic Park' is in every way the strongest. It is certain to be his most widely read, talked about, and unreservedly enjoyed novel to date.