Gravity

London: Harpercollins Publishers Ltd. Near Fine. 2012. Reprint; Second Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Sunned spine, small sticker tear to rear cover. ; Second printing of Harper reissue mass market edition, 2012. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread and near as new. Cover design and photo uncredited. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 512 pages; Dr Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, has been training for the mission of a lifetime: to study living organisms in space. Jack McCallum, Emmas estranged husband, has shared her dream of space travel, but a medical condition has grounded him. He must watch from the sidelines. The mission aboard the space station turns into a nightmare when a culture of single-celled organisms begins to regenerate out of control and infects the crew with agonising and deadly results. Emma struggles to contain the deadly micro-organisms, while back home Jack and NASA work against the clock to bring the crew home. But, with the contagion deemed a threat to Earth, there will be no rescue until a cure or treatment can be found. So the astronauts are left quarantined in orbit, where they are dying one by one .