苔丝•格里森（Tess Gerritsen），华裔女作家。毕业于斯坦福大学，曾作为一名非常成功的内科医生在檀香山行医多年。因酷爱写作，并且为了照顾两个幼儿，她辞职成为职业作家。

一九九六年出版的《宰割》是她的成名作。从那以后她的每本书都登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，迄今为止她已经出版了十八本小说，牢牢占据着当代女惊悚悬疑小说家第一人的地位。

苔丝的小说对女性心理刻画入微，擅长营造紧张气氛，故事情节曲折离奇，对人性的把握十分深刻，完全达到了严肃小说作家的水平。

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A young NASA doctor must combat a lethal microbe that is multiplying in the deadliest of environments -- space -- in this acclaimed blockbuster of medical suspense from Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of Harvest, Life Support, and Bloodstream. Gravity 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...