苔絲•格裏森（Tess Gerritsen），華裔女作傢。畢業於斯坦福大學，曾作為一名非常成功的內科醫生在檀香山行醫多年。因酷愛寫作，並且為瞭照顧兩個幼兒，她辭職成為職業作傢。

一九九六年齣版的《宰割》是她的成名作。從那以後她的每本書都登上《紐約時報》暢銷書排行榜，迄今為止她已經齣版瞭十八本小說，牢牢占據著當代女驚悚懸疑小說傢第一人的地位。

苔絲的小說對女性心理刻畫入微，擅長營造緊張氣氛，故事情節麯摺離奇，對人性的把握十分深刻，完全達到瞭嚴肅小說作傢的水平。

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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...