Book Club Meeting - Michael Crichton's "Next" (public event)

Join the Social Wave Book Club for a discussion of Michael Crichton's Next.

Publisher's Weekly writes of Next: "Bestseller Crichton once again focuses on genetic engineering in his cerebral new thriller, though the science involved is a lot less far-fetched than creating dinosaurs from DNA. In an ambitious effort to show what's wrong with the U.S.'s current handling of gene patents and with the laws governing human tissues, the author interweaves many plot strands, one involving a California researcher, Henry Kendall, who has mixed human and chimp DNA while working at NIH. Kendall produces an intelligent hybrid whom he rescues from the government and tries to pass off as a fully human child. "

Please note that, in an attempt to support locally-owned businesses, we'll be meeting this month at Coffee Society at The Pruneyard and we've changed the meeting date to Thursday, June 14.