Science Fiction

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?

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