Physicist John Grady and his team have made a real revolution in physics, developed a device that can control gravity and thereby change the development of human history forever. But Grady does not receive recognition; instead, his laboratory is closed by a secret organization known as the Bureau of Technology Control. The bureau's mission is to maintain stability in society, contain scientific progress, and prevent the inevitable social and public upheaval it can cause. Because the future is already here. Only it belongs to a select few. When Grady refuses to join BTK, he is thrown into a nightmarish high-tech prison where other doomed rebel geniuses are held. Now Grady and the other prisoners must fight an unimaginable enemy with technology 50 years ahead of modern technology.