Curiosity Killed the Cat

So it only took 120-odd pages for Genentech to get a mention.
In the same sentence as Wyeth. And Bio-Syn, which I'm pretty sure was the fake company that was behind the Jurassic Park shenanigans.

Also, AU Google now indexes pages of filetype shmtl!

What a trainwreck of a book. Thank Darwin I never actually paid for it (I got it from the book sale I volunteer at, and that's exactly where it's going back to, once my roommate has a good laugh.)

I was also amused by how many characters (and there were far too many characters to keep track of or even care about) named after famous, Nobel-winning biologists.
Watson. Koch. Sanger. Kendall. If they've won it, they've got someone named after them.

Holy crap, now a company named BioRad does paternity testing!

By the way, if you've ever spent any time in a bio lab, even just taking a class in school, you've probably used Bio-Rad equipment. Their stuff is EVERYWHERE.

In the wonderful, mysterious alternate universe of Michael Crichton's Next, Amgen, the world's largest biotech company¹ is located in Los Angeles² and BioGen³ is a struggling biotech startup⁴ in Los Angeles⁵. Oh, and Huntington's disease has mutated into an autosomal recessive disease⁶.
Holy shit, I'm only on page 50.

( THIS BOOK IS AWESOMESAUCE )

Also, there are talking monkeys. BECAUSE IT'S NOT ABSURD ENOUGH UNLESS THE APES SPEAK. IN DUTCH.
I'm sure this will be explainedBS'd later on.

Co-worker: "Harry Potter is like the literary iPhone. Someone had a copy of it on the shuttle and everyone wanted to look at it."

( ZOMG SPOILER! )