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Synopsis
Influx by Daniel Suarez
Change is dangerous, technology lethal. So what if our civilization is more advanced than we know? Particle physicist Jon Grady is ecstatic when his team achieves a major breakthrough: a device that can reflect gravity. Their research will revolutionise the field of physics. But at Grady's moment of triumph, his lab is locked down by a shadowy organisation whose mission is to prevent the social upheaval caused by sudden technological advances - advances they use to retain total command. They are living in the future we were promised. Now Grady finds himself in a nightmarish high-tech prison built to hold other rebellious geniuses. Can he and his fellow prisoners escape? And even if they can, is it possible to defeat an enemy that wields a technological advantage half a century in the making? The dark ages are ending. Our future is here...
Reviews
'[Influx is] done with the dazzling sophistication, the play of ideas, the hints of a new understanding almost within our grasp that characterize sci-fi in the cybertronic age' The Wall Street Journal
'Rockets along ... fun tech-fiction wrapped in black helicopter conspiracy Kirkus With this terrifying thriller, Suarez provides further support that he's a worthy successor to the late Michael Crichton' Publishers Weekly
'With Influx, Suarez becomes the master, and Crichton is the one who is honored by the comparison' Scientific American
'Full of breathtaking scenes' The New York Journal of Books
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3rd February 2015Author
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Sphere an imprint of Little, Brown Book GroupFormat
Paperback432 pages
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