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Author Gerritsen, Tess, author.

Title Gravity / Tess Gerritsen.

Publication Info. New York : Pocket Books, 2000.
©1999
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1801247~S1
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Description x, 385 pages ; 18 cm
Note Originally published in hardcover in 1999 by Pocket Books.
Summary 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...
Subject United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Fiction.
Women astronauts -- Fiction.
Communicable diseases -- Fiction.
Space stations -- Fiction.
Women physicians -- Fiction.
Microorganisms -- Research -- Fiction.
Genre Medical novels.
Suspense fiction.
ISBN 9780671016777 (pbk.)
0671016776 (pbk.)
Standard No. 076714007994
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