GRAVITY & FIRE

Glide Trilogy #1

by Bill Gourgey

From silicon germs to digitized souls, the future is here…

Read the first book of the Beverly Hills Book Award Winning Glide Trilogy, a mesmerizing tale of love, loss, and second chances. Set in a future filled with dazzling and perilous inventions, the trilogy has been read more than 6,000,000 times on Wattpad, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly (book 2), and has been queried for a future motion picture.

In Gravity & Fire a ruthless tycoon tries to save the world from total ruin, but she encounters an eccentric scientist who shakes her conviction with his innocence and a revolutionary invention. Their secret tryst sets in motion epic events that ripple far into the future until adventuresome teens stumble upon the truth in a dilapidated seaside mansion, where they inadvertently awaken the past and a legacy of war, plague, and miracles.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction

424 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2011

About the author

Bill Gourgey is a science writer, fiction author, and educator. He writes a monthly science history column for Popular Science and has contributed to MIT Technology Review, WIRED, and other publications. His nonfiction explores how scientific and technological innovations succeed, fail, and resurface across generations—and what those patterns reveal about how societies think about the future. He is also the author of the Beverly Hills Book Award-winning Glide Trilogy and Cap City Mysteries YA series. He teaches graduate science writing at Johns Hopkins University.

Reviews

[Ron · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was on it's way to 1.5 stars. In fact, I had to force myself through the first half. It redeems itself in the last hundred pages, but three stars is still something of a gift.

Great premise; loved the folded timeline of the story; interesting finale, but it was lost admit the inept writing, techno-babble, psycho-babble and philosophisms. Inconsistent punctuation often kicks the reader out of the story.

Most male characters are so stupid they're irritating. Michael is an argument for infanticide.

Gourgey should have worked on it for a few more years, and maybe engaged an editor.

Beginning to equate cheap/free ebooks with poor quality.

[Nick Travers · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is amazing. Well written, well constructed and well researched. Bill Gourgey certainly knows his science.

I immediately connected with the main characters and wanted to know so much more about them. Which is why I'm reading the sequel, Nologic. I hope there will be many more.

As modern Sci-fi goes, this reminds me very much of Issac Assimov.

This story excited and inspired me.

[Jenna · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had a hard time rating this book. It is based on an interesting concepts of time and space, and it is clear that the author is very smart about Physics and the other sciences. If you enjoy theories about time travel and futuristic inventions, you may very well enjoy this book (expecially if you are big on scientific vocabulary). While the scientific ideas were unique and well-thought-out, I found the actual story-telling to be a little choppy...I found it hard to identify with any characters and none of them were developed very well; it was hard to understand why characters did what they did. The very end of the story was a good twist - not expected, but also not new to literature. Overall, I found the story moved way too slow for my taste (there were a few action sequences, but they were hurried way too fast); it focused a little too much on terms and not enough on the actual plot development. I would recomend it for anyone who enjoys science and would like a story that ponders how to stretch scientific bounds.

[Nick · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it and could see myself reading the next one, but felt really put off by the climax. it felt unbelievable to me yet I loved the science and tech in the story.