Influx
Physicist Jon Grady achieves the impossible by inventing a device that manipulates gravity, expecting his discovery to benefit all of mankind. Instead, he is abducted by the Bureau of Technology Control, a shadow organization dedicated to suppressing advanced breakthroughs to maintain social stability. When Grady refuses to help them hide his work, he is cast into a high-tech prison filled with t…
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