Among Us

Dyson Bridge, #2

by

V.G. Harrison

A daring escape and a desperate race to return to space and save the planet.

When an explosion aboard Bridgeway Space Station sends it and her crew into a parallel dimension, Dr. Meridia Vail and the surviving crew members are rescued by the combined space-venturing nations of this new Earth. However, the nations' cooperation is short-lived as the space station and crew soon become hotly contested prizes, and the space station's orbit begins to decay, threatening everyone below. Split up and sent to the nations they represented in their own dimension and suffering the unexpected effects of this planet's gravity, Dr. Vail desperately escapes her hosts in order to find help to reunite her fellow crew members, return to the space station, and avert the looming disaster.

Among Us is the second book in author V.G. Harrison's exciting Dyson Bridge science fiction series and follows Dr. Meridia Vail's daring escape from the secured federal mental institution where she and others from her crew have been languishing and her desperate efforts to find the help they need to return to Bridgeway Station. When the nations of Earth had cooperated to retrieve the station's crew safely, the rescuers had caused the acceleration of the station's orbital decay. Without her and her crew to stop it, the massive structure would soon enter the planet's atmosphere and eventually plummet to the Earth, causing unimaginable damage, perhaps even a black hole that would suck everything and everyone in the vicinity into oblivion. 

Readers are reintroduced to Dr. Meridia Vail during this latest installment, which serves to advance the storyline begun in book one by an additional day or two. As not a lot of backstory is reviewed, readers new to the series should pick up the previous book before continuing with this one. 

While Dr. Vail scrambles to find anyone in academia or NASA to help her, she worries and shows a lot of compassion for those who answer her call, and rightfully so, as Homeland Security dogs anyone she encounters. The government has been lying to everyone about her continued sojourn in this dimension, telling everyone, including NASA, that she and her crew had perished. Unfortunately, their cover-up may prove true as the epileptic-type symptoms they are exhibiting worsen. All is not grim, though. I loved Dr. Vail's scene with the school children touring the model of the space station at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, and how these small purveyors of social media helped arm-twist the powers that be into admitting the truth and coming to the negotiating table. 

I recommend AMONG US to science fiction fans, especially those who have read the previous book in the series.

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