My latest review ran in the Philadelphia Inquirer this morning: Michael Crichton's pop science potboiler Next. I enjoy everything Crichton writes, and this one is no different. Fun read.
I know I haven't posted much lately... Life has been very busy, as you might imagine. I'll see if I can write more often.
Oh, and apparently Guyot is blogging again. The guy's like a freakin' crack addict.
Great review! I would take Crichton's science with a liberal pinch of salt, though. For example, the bit about the one-fifth of the human genome being privately owned. The human genome is sequenced in its entirety to a high degree of accuracy and is in the public domain, thanks to Sulston, Collins and Lander, who insisted on it. Craig Venter's sequence (private domain) is not as accurate or to as high a resolution. Yes, companies are working on genes of interest, and patenting away, but the acutal genetic code is all safely in the public domain, see the NIH website. Of course, Venter and the HGP sequenced DNA from many different humans....
Posted by: Maxine | December 11, 2006 at 03:56 PM