Bryan Appleyard Interviews Michael Crichton
Apparently, my support of Michael Crichton’s Next in the face of ridicule was not enough to grant me an audience with the author. (Just joking!) But we can still enjoy Bryan Appleyard’s interview with him in the Sunday Times (UK).
The satire of Next is focused not on a single delusion, but on what Crichton sees as the outrageous state of the law and the science of genetics. “I was just astonished at the state of knowledge and how it was being interpreted in the courts, which clearly seemed to require revision.”
Happily, I am not alone in liking Crichton’s Next. Bryan liked him as did David Montgomery of The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Other Genetics and Health posts about Michael Crichton’s Next:
NB: Philadelphia Inquirer link via Books, Inq.
Tags: michael crichton, crichton, next, books, science, genetics, genes, dna, bryan appleyard, diseases, illness, health
Oooh, I just downloaded ‘Next’ from Audible will start listening to it on my commute this week. Glad to know ahead of time it is going to be good!