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Gravity

Gerritsen, Tess. (Author).

Summary: Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, has been training for the mission of a lifetime: to study living beings in space. Jack McCallum, Emma's estranged husband, has shared her dream of space travel, but a medical condition has grounded and embittered him. He must watch from the sidelines as his wife prepares for her first mission to the International Space Station. Once aboard the space station, however, things start to fo terribly wrong. A culture of single-celled organisms known as 'Archaeons' gathered from the deep sea, is to be monitored in the microgravity of space. The true and lethal nature of this experiement has not been revealed to NASA. In space, the cells rapidly multiply and soon begin to infect the crew - with agonizing and deadly results. A recovery attempt ends in catastrophe; the NASA shuttle crashes, and the space station is left dangerously crippled. Emma struggles to contaion the deadly microbe, while back home, Jack and NASA work against the clock to retrieve Emma from space. But there will be no rescue. The contagion now threatens Eather's population as well, and the astronauts are left stranded in orbit, quarantined aboard the station - where they are dying one by one...

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  • ISBN: 0671016784
  • ISBN: 9780671016784
  • Physical Description: 342 p. ; 25 cm.
    print
  • Publisher: New York : Pocket Books, c1999.
Subject: United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Fiction
Astronauts -- Fiction
Epidemics -- Fiction
Space stations -- Fiction
Microorganisms -- Fiction
Genre: Medical thrillers.

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Beaver Valley Public Library F GER (Text) 0047273 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
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Fort St. James Public Library GER (Text) 35196000012315 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
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