If you lived long enough, this could be your future, too In the late twenty-first century, you will find a very different world. Little is as it used to be, and many are not what they seem. Kendrick Gallmon, survivor of an infamous research facility called the Maze, is trying to pick up the pieces of his life, even though he knows the Labrat augments are slowly killing him. Then one day his heart stops beating, forever, and a ghost urges him to return to the source of all his nightmares, a long-abandoned military complex filled with entirely real voices of the dead.
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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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In the late twenty-first century, you will find a very different world. Little is as it used to be, and many are not what they seem. Kendrick Gallmon, survivor of an infamous research facility called the Maze, is trying to pick up the pieces of his life, even though he knows the Labrat augments are slowly killing him. Then one day his heart stops beating, forever, and a ghost urges him to return to the source of all his nightmares, a long-abandoned military complex filled with entirely real voices of the dead.
--This text refers to an alternate
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edition.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By R. J. Beed
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Kendrick (the hero of the story) is in the wrong place at the wrong time as the USA falls apart. He is captured, tortured and finally used as an expendable guinea pig for military enhancements in ward 17. All the inmates of ward 17, ended up with an unexplained connection to a failed space station, tasked to find God. Now the whole world seems to be after them...
The book tells the story by swapping (rather confusingly) between different times of Kendrick's past.
It's a good book that holds your attention well, but has a rather disappointing ending.
The book tells the story by swapping (rather confusingly) between different times of Kendrick's past.
It's a good book that holds your attention well, but has a rather disappointing ending.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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I read this book with interest in the hope of finding a new author having exhausted my current list of authors and having re-read my whole collection to death.
Against Gravity started off well with a nice hook and some interesting mysteries, however I found myself skipping pages to keep the action moving. Things start to hot up towards the end but when I actually got to the end of the book I thought the last page must have been torn out. I was quite disapointed at where the author saw fit to end the story. Recommended if you have nothing else in your "too read" pile
Against Gravity started off well with a nice hook and some interesting mysteries, however I found myself skipping pages to keep the action moving. Things start to hot up towards the end but when I actually got to the end of the book I thought the last page must have been torn out. I was quite disapointed at where the author saw fit to end the story. Recommended if you have nothing else in your "too read" pile
By Robert
Format:Paperback
This is the first Gary Gibson book I have read. It starts well with an augmented protagonist living off the grid in Edinburgh. The story is excellent, but I found that it was the writing style that put me off. Sometimes I had not even realised an action scene was taking place, it was so plodding. For example, when Kendrick falls out of a window during a fight, I only picked up on this halfway through the paragraph of him falling. Such rereads to check what had happened occurred frequently. On a couple of occasions my internal voice screeched to a halt when an unfamiliar word was used, for commonplace things, such as one used to describe clouds. All in all, I just could not persevere.
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