Bio Hazard

Next, by Michael Crichton (HarperCollins, 448 pp., $27.95)

IN reviewing Next, Michael Crichton’s new novel of the biotech future, I have to begin with a disclosure. Crichton now footnotes his novels, and in the endnotes to this one he cites my book Liberation Biology-which he praises as “the clearest and most complete response to religious objections to biotechnology.”