Against Gravity (Paperback)

by Gary Gibson (Author)

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“Powerfully told, with room for an expansion of the story, this sf suspense thriller belongs in most libraries.” -- Library Journal

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Live long enough, and this could be your future…

It is the late 21st century, and it is a very different world. Meet Kendrick Gallmon, survivor of The Maze, a secret research facility where thousands of political prisoners became unwilling guinea pigs in experiments to create the perfect soldier. Kendrick Gallmon is trying to pick up the pieces of his life, even though he knows his nervous system, which is riddled with unstable nanotech augmentations, is slowly killing him. Then one day, his heart stops beating, forever. A ghost urges him to return to the source of all his nightmares—a long-abandoned military complex filled with the entirely real voices of the dead…

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Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Macmillan UK (July 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1405034467
• ISBN-13: 978-1405034463
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,327,839 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An intricate story with great science, action, and characters., November 13, 2007

By	J. Mitchell (Texas) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Against Gravity (Paperback)

This book is about Kendrick Gallmon, a former captive in a military experimental complex called The Maze, who works as a journalist following his escape from his former prison. While in The Maze, Gallmon was "infected" with nano-implants which are slowly beginning to take over his body. Over the course of the novel, he discovers clues leading to a massive operation involving Max Draeger, the supposed creator of The Maze and designer of the technology now destroying Kendrick's body.

Gallmon and Draeger end up working together, briefly, to get passage to a giant abandoned space station in orbit, the Archimedes. The Archimedes, which was abandoned because it became overrun with nano-technology (the same as that in Gallmon's body), holds an AI that has supposedly found one of the most powerful forces in the universe. The Omega Point, a point in space and time at which one has unlimited energy, has been found by the AI, and now Draeger is going after it. Gallmon's only interest in going to the station is to find proof that Draeger was responsible for creating The Maze; his knowledge of the Omega Point, however, leads him on a different path than the one he'd planned for himself.

This is an excellent book in so many ways. I really enjoyed Gary Gibson's writing style; his descriptions were so vivid, I felt as if I was there in the Maze myself. I also enjoyed the characters, who for the most part seemed very realistic; each had their own flaws and inner conflicts they had to struggle with. Finally, the science aspect of the story was the best part, and the part that drew me to the book in the first place. HIGHLY recommended!!!!