Influx

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The work Influx represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vaughan Public Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Influx

Statement of responsibility

Daniel Suarez

Creator

• Suarez, Daniel, 1964-

Author

• Suarez, Daniel, 1964-

Subject

• Gravitational waves -- Fiction
• Physicists -- Fiction
• Science fiction
• Space and time -- Fiction
• Discoveries in science -- Fiction
• Thrillers (Fiction)
• Extremists -- Fiction

Genre

• Thrillers (Fiction)
• Science fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Are smart phones really humanity's most significant innovation since the moon landings? Or can something else explain why the bold visions of the 20th century--fusion power, genetic enhancements, artificial intelligence, cures for common disease, extended human life, and a host of other world-changing advances--have remained beyond our grasp? Why has the high-tech future that seemed imminent in the 1960's failed to arrive? Perhaps it did arrive... but only for a select few. Particle physicist Jon Grady is ecstatic when his team achieves what they've been working toward for years: a device that can reflect gravity. Their research will revolutionize the field of physics--the crowning achievement of a career. Grady expects widespread acclaim for his entire team. The Nobel. Instead, his lab is locked down by a shadowy organization whose mission is to prevent at all costs the social upheaval sudden technological advances bring. This Bureau of Technology Control uses the advanced technologies they have harvested over the decades to fulfill their mission. They are living in our future. Presented with the opportunity to join the BTC and improve his own technology in secret, Grady balks, and is instead thrown into a nightmarish high-tech prison built to hold rebellious geniuses like himself. With so many great intellects confined together, can Grady and his fellow prisoners conceive of a way to usher humanity out of its artificial dark age? And when they do, is it possible to defeat an enemy that wields a technological advantage half a century in the making?

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Literary form

novels

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

general