First published 2014
Particle physicist Jon Grady and his team finally crack the code they've pursued for years. They build a device that reflects gravity. Grady anticipates Nobel recognition and scientific acclaim. Instead, agents from the Bureau of Technology Control storm his lab and shut down his research. The BTC has spent decades collecting advanced technologies and hiding them from the public to prevent social chaos. They possess fusion power, genetic treatments, artificial intelligence, disease cures, and life extension methods. The organization offers Grady a chance to join their secret work and develop his technology in isolation. When he refuses, they lock him in a high security prison designed for brilliant minds who won't cooperate. Grady finds himself surrounded by other genius inventors and scientists who discovered too much too soon. Together, the imprisoned researchers plot to break free from their technologically superior captors and release humanity's suppressed future to the world.
Genres: science-fiction, dystopia, adventure, crime, action, artificial-intelligence
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-allies, found-family, whistleblower
Setting: Bureau of Technology Control
Period: 21st-century
406 pages · Hardcover · Dutton
Content warnings: violence