According to THR, 20th
Century Fox has acquired the screen rights to Daniel Suarez sci-fi tech thriller
novel Influx. The adaptation is set for release on February 20th.
Are smart phones really
humanity’s most significant innovation since the moon landings? Or can
something else explain why the bold visions of the 20th century—fusion power,
genetic enhancements, artificial intelligence, cures for common disease,
extended human lifespan, and a host of other world-changing advances—have
remained beyond our grasp? Why has the high-tech future that seemed imminent in
the 1960’s failed to arrive?
Perhaps 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 years: a
device that can reflect gravity. Their research will revolutionize the field of
physics—the crowning achievement of a career. Grady expects widespread acclaim
for his entire team. The Nobel Prize. Instead, his lab is locked down by a
shadowy organization whose mission is to prevent at all costs the social
upheaval sudden technological advances bring. This Bureau of Technology Control
uses the advanced technologies they have harvested over the decades to fulfill
their mission.
They are living in our future.
Presented with the opportunity to
join the BTC and improve his own technology in secret, Grady resists, and is
instead thrown into a nightmarish high-tech prison built to hold rebellious
geniuses like himself. With so many great intellects confined together, can
Grady and his fellow prisoners conceive of a way to usher humanity out of its
artificial dark age?
And if they do, is it possible to
defeat an enemy that wields a technological advantage half a century in the
making?
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