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Feb 03, 2015 | ISBN 9780451469441 Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
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Feb 03, 2015 | ISBN 9780451469441
Feb 20, 2014 | ISBN 9780698148536
Feb 20, 2014 | ISBN 9781101630631
826 Minutes
New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez imagines a chilling future where technological advances are held hostage by the government in this thriller that perfectly blends “nail-biting suspense with accessible science” (Publishers Weekly). Physicist Jon Grady and his team have discovered a device that can reflect gravity—a triumph that will revolutionize the field of physics and change the future. But instead of acclaim, Grady’s lab is locked down by a covert organization known as the Bureau of Technology Control. The bureau’s mission: suppress the truth of sudden technological progress and prevent the social upheaval it would trigger. Because the future is already here. And it’s rewards are only for a select few. When Grady refuses to join the BTC, he’s thrown into a nightmarish high-tech prison housing other doomed rebel intellects. Now, as the only hope to usher humanity out of its artificial dark age, Grady and his fellow prisoners must try to expose the secrets of an unimaginable enemy—one that wields a technological advantage half a century in the making.
What if our civilization is more advanced than we know?The New York Times bestselling author of Daemon—“the cyberthriller against which all others will be measured” –Publishers Weekly) —imagines a world in which decades of technological advances have been suppressed in an effort to prevent disruptive change.Are smartphones 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 diseases, 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 1960s 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 Prize. 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?
Daniel Suarez is the author of the New York Times bestseller Daemon, Freedom(TM), Kill Decision, Influx, and Change Agent. A former systems consultant to Fortune 1000 companies, his high-tech and sci-fi thrillers focus on technology-driven change. He lives in Los… More about Daniel Suarez
Praise for the Novels of Daniel Suarez “So frightening, even the government has taken note.”—Entertainment Weekly “The Tom Clancy of cyber security…A hell of a fun read.”—BusinessWeek “An eyes-wide-open, eyebrows-raised, head-shaking warning.”—Wired “Ambitious.…I came away from this novel with a…new fear of computer capability.”—New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook “Fiendishly clever…an almost perfect guilty-pleasure novel.”—The Dallas Morning News “[Daniel Suarez] is the best author of tech fiction since Bruce Sterling and Neal Stephenson.”—John Robb, futurist & author of Brave New War “Greatest. Technothriller. Period.”—William O’Brien, former director of cybersecurity and communications policy, the White House
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