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| View Larger Image | Gravity: A Novel of Medical Suspense | Mass Market Paperbackby Tess Gerritsen (Author)
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| | Binding: | Mass Market Paperback | | Publisher: | Pocket | | Page Count: | 400 Pages | | Publication Date: | October 01, 2000 | | Sales Rank: | 31,083st |
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Product Description
A young NASA doctor must combat a lethal microbe that is multiplying in the deadliest of environments -- space -- in this acclaimed blockbuster of medical suspense from Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of Harvest, Life Support, and Bloodstream. Gravity Dr. Emma Watson has been training for the adventure of a lifetime: to study living beings in space. But her mission aboard the International Space Station turns into a nightmare beyond imagining when a culture of single-celled organisms begins to regenerate out of control -- and infects the space station crew with agonizing and deadly results. Emma struggles to contain the outbreak while back on Earth her estranged husband, Jack McCallum, works frantically with NASA to bring her home. But there will be no rescue. The contagion now threatens Earth's population, and the astronauts are stranded in orbit, quarantined aboard the station -- where they are dying one by one... |
Amazon.com Review
Tess Gerritsen used to be a doctor, so it comes as no great surprise that the medical aspects of her latest thriller are absolutely convincing--even if most of the action happens in a place where few doctors have ever practiced--outer space. Dr. Emma Watson and five other hand-picked astronauts are about to take part in the trip of a lifetime--studying living creatures in space. But an alien life form, found in the deepest crevices of the ocean floor, is accidentally brought aboard the shuttle Atlantis. This mutated alien life form makes the creatures in Aliens look like backyard pets. Soon the crew are suffering severe stomach pains, violent convulsions, and eyes so bloodshot that a gallon of Murine wouldn't help. Gerritsen brilliantly describes the difficulties of treating sick people inside a space module, and how the lack of gravity affects the process of taking blood and inserting a nasal tube. Dr. Watson does her best, but her colleagues die off one by one and the people at NASA don't want to risk bringing the platform back to earth. Only Emma's husband, a doctor/astronaut himself, refuses to give up on her. As we read along, eyes popping out of our heads, all that's missing is one of those bland NASA voices saying, "Houston, we have a problem--we're being attacked by tiny little creatures that are part human, part frog, and part mouse." Other examples of Gerritsen's controlled medical horrors: Bloodstream, Harvest, and Life Support. --Dick Adler |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 154 reviews)
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Predictable and disappointing by Kris B (Oslo, Norway)  2 Stars
October 17, 2009
Yes - the technical details, medical and engineering-wise, are very good. The story has just the right number of characters, and the pace of events is breathtakingly high. So what's the problem? It is all clinically formulaeic, pardon the pun. The tempo proves to me that more is not necessarily better, and the characters are disappointingly shallow. My mind was always 10 pages ahead of what I was reading, so it all seemed like old news when I reached another turn of events.
This was my first encounter with this author. I am not sure that I would try another one.
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tess gerritson by mystery lover  5 Stars
October 03, 2009
always a great read worth passing on to best friends who also love a great read.
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Thrilling in the extreme by John B. Goode (Earth) 5 Stars
September 30, 2009
Tess Gerritsen strays from her usual medical thriller. This is more like a sci-fi thriller, with medical overtones. She is one of my favorite authors and am I glad that she gave up her internist career for one in writing. The world has so many internists but only a few truly good writers.
So what's good about this book? The setting for one, an isolated space station. This is no different from your isolated mansion or runaway train or isolated island. It's a well used and often used plot setting, but scary all the same as the characters are isolated from any help. Someone can eventually get to the mansion or stop the train, but being in outer space is as isolated as you can get.
The plot keeps you guessing til the end, I won't reveal too much here. The characters are well fleshed out and keep you goose pimpled as they die off one by one. This one kept me up well past bed time. A solid 10/10.
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Blood and slime in outer space - who could ask for anything more.... by Dorothy Blair (Greenville, SC)  1 Stars
August 09, 2009
I hated this book and put it down several times. But I really like Tess Gerritsen and I couldn't believe she could write anything that I found so predictable and disgusting. So I picked it up and suffered through to the end. I do wish that authors would stop portraying people who work for the government as ignorant, arrogant and incompetant -- some are, but not all! From the time the spacecraft lifted off, it was one disaster after another and frankly, I was delighted when our heroine, left alone to fend for herself, came down with the dreaded whatever. Surely NOW something would finally happen! Upon my word, her estranged husband boarded his inescapable little shuttle and roared off into space in an attempt to rescue her. - SPOILER ALERT - I am pleased to report that he found her and they lived happily ever after!
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A good reading experience. by William Oterson (About 50 miles, or so, east of Manhattan.)  3 Stars
July 31, 2009
I enjoyed reading this book. As the story progressed I didn't want to put the book down. It's got all the makings of the type book you'd want to read and it isn't run of the mill as some would have you believe, but novel, and written for the adult. The story is of present time, the characters interesting and suspense is plentiful. I've read most of the other authors of this genre and place Ms. Gerritsen securely amongst them. It deserves 3 1/2 stars, and I'm looking forward to reading more from this author.
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SIMILAR PRODUCTS |
| Bloodstream
by Tess Gerritsen (Author)
With her acclaimed novels Harvest and Life Support, Tess Gerritsen has injected a powerful dose of adrenaline into the medical thriller. Now, in a new blockbuster, Gerritsen melds page-turning suspense with chilling realism as a small-town doctor races to unravel the roots of a violent outbreak -- before it destroys everything she loves. Lapped by he gentle waters of Locust Lake, the small resort town of Tranquility, Maine, seems like the perfect spot for Dr. Claire Elliot to shelter...
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| Life Support
by Tess Gerritsen (Author)
New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen weaves authenticity into another novel of searing medical suspense, as a dedicated woman doctor probes into the cause of a mystifying and lethal outbreak. The quiet overnight shift at Springer Hospital ER suits Dr. Toby Harper just fine -- until she admits a man in critical condition from a possible viral infection of the brain. The delirious man barely responds to treatment -- and then disappears without a trace. Before Toby can find...
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| Harvest
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Medical resident Dr. Abby Matteo is elated when the elite cardiac transplant team at Boston's Bayside Hospital taps her as a potential recruit. But faced with a tormenting life-and-death decision, Abby helps direct a crash victim's harvested heart to a dying teenager -- instead of the wealthy older woman who was supposed to receive it. The repercussions leave Abby shaken and plagued with self-doubt. Suddenly, a new heart appears, and the woman's transplant is completed. Then Abby makes...
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| Body Double (Jane Rizzoli, Book 4)
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Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles literally meets her match–and must face a savage serial killer and shattering personal revelations–in the brilliant new novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Sinner.
Dr. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death. As a pathologist in a major metropolitan city, she has seen more than her share of corpses every day–many of them victims of violent murder. But never before has her blood run cold, and...
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| Vanish (Jane Rizzoli, Book 5)
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A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Body Double.
A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney, awaiting the dissecting scalpel of medical examiner Maura Isles. But when Maura unzips the body bag and looks down at the body,...
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