Observer

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER ●  "Mind-bending ... A novel full of life-affirming ideas."—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

"The cutting edge of science tipping into something new and marvelous ... a startling, fascinating novel."―KIM STANLEY ROBINSON, New York Times bestselling author 

"Real science and limitless imagination combine in a thrilling story you won't soon forget."―ROBIN COOK, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Coma (and 37 other international bestsellers)

"Brilliant ... A riveting and moving story." ―RHONDA BYRNE, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Secret.

Caro Soames-Watkins, a talented neurosurgeon whose career has been upended by controversy, is jobless, broke, and the sole supporter of her sister, a single mother with a severely disabled child.

When she receives a strange job offer from Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sam Watkins, a great uncle she barely knows, desperation forces her to take it in spite of serious suspicions.

Watkins has built a mysterious medical facility in the Caribbean to conduct research into the nature of consciousness, reality, and life after death. Helped in his mission by his old friend, eminent physicist George Weigert, and young tech entrepreneur Julian Dey, Sam has gone far beyond curing the body to develop a technology that could solve the riddle of mortality.

Two obstacles stand in their way: someone on the inside is leaking intel and Watkins' failing body must last long enough for the technology to be ready.
 
As danger mounts, Caro finds more than she bargained for, including murder, love, and a deeper understanding into the nature of reality. 

A mind-expanding journey to the very edges of science, Observer will thrill you, inspire you, and lead you to think about life and the power of the imagination in startling new ways.

Robert Lanza, M.D.  Named one of TIME magazine's "100 Most Influential People," Lanza is a renowned scientist and author whose peer-reviewed research spans many fields from biology to theoretical physics. He has worked with some of the greatest minds of our time, including Jonas Salk and B.F. Skinner. A U.S. News & World Report cover story called him "the living embodiment of the character played by Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting" and described him as a "genius," a "renegade thinker," and likened him to Einstein. Lanza has been pondering the larger existential questions since he was a young boy, exploring the forests of eastern Massachusetts observing nature (like Emerson and Thoreau, who grew up just a few miles from him).  This fascination with the nature of life infused his entire career, leading him to the very frontiers of biology and science.
 
Lanza has also published peer-reviewed papers in theoretical physics, including in Annalen der Physik, which published Einstein's theories of special and general relativity. Lanza's paper takes Einstein's relativity one step further, arguing that time is not only relative to the observer, but that the observer is necessary for the emergence of time itself. Lanza also published a paper in JCAP, one of the leading journals in cosmology and astrophysics, which he co-authored with Podolskiy and Barvinsky (one of the world's leading theorists in quantum gravity and quantum cosmology). This paper shows that networks of observers define the structure of physical reality/spacetime itself.
 
Nancy Kress.  Hailed by bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson as "one of the greatest science fiction writers working today," Nancy Kress has won six Nebula and two Hugo Awards for her fiction. She often writes about developments in science, particularly genetic engineering, as in her bestselling novel, Beggars in Spain. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages, including Klingon.