Influx Audiobook (Free)

Imagine if our civilization is more complex than we know?

The New York Times bestselling author of Daemon-“the cyberthriller against which others will be measured” -Web publishers Regular) -imagines a global in which decades of technological advances have been suppressed in an effort to prevent disruptive change.

Are smartphones really humanity’s most crucial innovation because the moon landings? Or can something else clarify why the bold visions from the 20th century-fusion power, genetic about Influx enhancements, artificial intelligence, treatments for common diseases, extended human lifestyle, and a host of other world-changing advances-have continued to be beyond our grasp? Why has the high-tech future that seemed imminent in the 1960s failed to arrive?

Maybe 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 a long time: a device that can reflect gravity. Their research will revolutionize the field of physics-the crowning accomplishment of a profession. Grady expects wide-spread acclaim for his whole team. The Nobel Reward. Instead, his lab can be locked down with a shadowy firm whose mission is normally to prevent at all costs the social upheaval sudden technological advances bring. This Bureau of Technology Control uses the advanced technology they have harvested over the decades to satisfy their mission.

They are living inside 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 created to hold rebellious geniuses like himself. With a lot of great intellects confined collectively, can Grady and his fellow prisoners conceive of ways to usher mankind out of its artificial dark age?

And when they do, is it possible to defeat an foe that wields a technological advantage half a hundred years in the building?