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The Hunt for Zero Point
by Nick Cook, Century, 拢17.99, ISBN 0712669531

A RUSSIAN researcher called Evgeny (or Eugene) Podkletnov announced to the
world in 1992 that he had succeeded in shielding an area of space from gravity.
He was dismissed as a charlatan, of course鈥攂ut then NASA went and set up a
project to investigate it. Podkletnov disappeared from view. A woman called Ning
Li began researching 鈥済ravity shielding effects鈥� at the University of Alabama in
Huntsville and announced that she, too, was getting somewhere. Then she dropped
out of sight. NASA has not yet abandoned antigravity.

Nick Cook鈥檚 Hunt for Zero Point picks up the trail. It鈥檚 classic
sleuthing journalism: follow the leads, don鈥檛 stop at the dead ends,
and鈥攊f all else fails鈥攇uess at what鈥檚 missing. It鈥檚 a conspiracy
theory, and I couldn鈥檛 put it down. Of course, Cook could have made up the
conspiracy bit. Or is that a meta-conspiracy: does he want me to think he made
it up?

I dipped in towards the back of the book at first, hoping to cut to the chase
and find out whether antigravity is indeed alive and well. I couldn鈥檛 find the
answer, so I followed some clues that led back through the text to Nazi Germany,
where the whole thing began鈥攁ccording to Cook, anyway.

From there the secrets were passed first to a Moscow sewerage engineer named
Podkletnov, and then on to his son Evgeny. The rest is history, or something
like it. So do the Americans have an antigravity-powered flying saucer? I could
tell you, but then I would have to kill you afterwards.