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Art Bell welcomes bestselling author and physician Tess Gerritsen to discuss her novel Gravity, a thriller set aboard the International Space Station that Art considers one of the finest books he has ever read. Tess describes her two years of research at NASA's Johnson and Kennedy Space Centers, immersing herself so deeply in astronaut culture that she dreamed of weightlessness each night.
The conversation takes a sharp turn when Tess reveals that the blockbuster film Gravity bears striking similarities to her book and an alternate third act she wrote in which satellite debris destroys the station and leaves the heroine drifting untethered. A confidential source informed her that director Alfonso Cuaron had once been attached to direct the adaptation of her novel. Her lawsuit against Warner Brothers was dismissed, and Tess shares the troubling statistic that no writer has won an intellectual property case against a Hollywood studio in the Ninth Circuit in two decades.
The discussion shifts into the nature of evil, touching on sociopathy, the biblical Nephilim, and strange correspondence Tess received from self-identified non-human entities after publishing The Mephisto Club. Multiple industry insiders warned her that major studios employ occult protections known as egregory in legal matters.
The conversation takes a sharp turn when Tess reveals that the blockbuster film Gravity bears striking similarities to her book and an alternate third act she wrote in which satellite debris destroys the station and leaves the heroine drifting untethered. A confidential source informed her that director Alfonso Cuaron had once been attached to direct the adaptation of her novel. Her lawsuit against Warner Brothers was dismissed, and Tess shares the troubling statistic that no writer has won an intellectual property case against a Hollywood studio in the Ninth Circuit in two decades.
The discussion shifts into the nature of evil, touching on sociopathy, the biblical Nephilim, and strange correspondence Tess received from self-identified non-human entities after publishing The Mephisto Club. Multiple industry insiders warned her that major studios employ occult protections known as egregory in legal matters.
Key Moments
Dreaming weightless: Gerritsen says immersing herself in space-program research for the novel made her dream nightly that she was weightless.
Untethered after station disaster: Gerritsen summarizes the core overlap: a female astronaut left adrift after debris destroys the International Space Station.
Writers almost never win: Gerritsen says 50 writer lawsuits over two decades had produced zero wins.
Egregory in Hollywood defense: Gerritsen reads a letter claiming powerful Hollywood insiders use egregory in legal matters and that she cannot win without challenging it.
Nephilim write in: Gerritsen says self-identified Nephilim contacted her to dispute the way history portrays them.