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radiolaria
Since: Aug, 2016

There was this sci-fi book that I saw in an airport bookstore maybe a year and a half ago. It had the Empire State Building on the front, but the exterior was crumbling, revealing a black, futuristic skyscraper inside. It was about this scientist who invented an anti-gravity device & some people like the MIB approached him and gave him a choice of either working in their secret laboratories, perfecting his device, but it would never be known about by the general populace, or he could go to a secret prison, where other geniuses who refused to help the MIB-like people & wanted to show the world their creations are imprisoned. He chooses to go to prison, where I think he somehow leads a rebellion or something? When I found it, it was a hardcover. Please let me know what it's called or who it's by.