In Daniel Suarez ’s upcoming book Influx , someone is imprisoning the world ’s technological virtuoso to keep engineering from advancing too far . It ’s an challenging premise , and clear Fox agrees , as they ’ve optioned it before the book ’s release on February 20th . Here ’s the book ’s official description from Amazon :
Are smart phones really humanness ’s most important innovation since the moon landings ? Or can something else excuse why the bluff visions of the 20th century — unification power , genetic enhancements , artificial intelligence service , cures for vernacular disease , extended human life , and a master of ceremonies of other world - change advances — have remained beyond our range ? Why has the high - technical school future that seemed impending in the 1960 ’s failed to arrive ?
Perhaps it did arrive … but only for a blue-ribbon few .
Particle physicist Jon Grady is ecstatic when his team achieves what they ’ve been working toward for years : a equipment that can reverberate gravity . Their enquiry will inspire the champaign of physics — the crowning achievement of a career . Grady expects widespread acclaim for his integral team . The Nobel . Instead , his research laboratory is lock away down by a shadowy organization whose mission is to prevent at all costs the social upthrust sudden technical advances bring . This Bureau of Technology Control uses the advanced technologies they have harvested over the decade to fulfil their missionary work .
They are living in our future .
Presented with the opportunity to connect the BTC and meliorate his own technology in secluded , Grady balk , and is or else thrown into a nightmarish high - tech prison built to oblige rebellious sensation like himself . With so many great intellects confine together , can Grady and his fellow prisoner think of a elbow room to usher humanity out of its contrived dark age ?
And when they do , is it potential to overcome an enemy that wields a technological advantage half a 100 in the making ?
It ’s obviously way too before long for any detail about the picture , but we ’ll keep you posted .
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