Isn’t this sort of a contradiction in terms?
Best-selling author Michael Crichton’s new book, Next, a futuristic thriller set in the present…”
It’s a little like setting a present-day story in the past. Or writing an historical novel that’s set in the future. (Actually, I think Gene Wolfe already sort of did that.)
Then again, I can’t remember the last time I was genuinely interested in reading a Michael Crichton novel. His last one, apparently, was really, really bad.