Observer , by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress is a slick, modern, hard science fiction standalone medical thriller, combining classic Robin Cook with the hard edge of Black Mirror and Altered Carbon . After neurosurgeon Caro Soames-Watkins’s career has gone down in flames, she receives a strange job offer from Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sam Watkins, a great uncle she barely knows, and desperation overcomes any suspicions. Watkins’s mysterious medical facility conducts research into the nature of consciousness, reality, and life after death. Two obstacles stand in his way: an intel leak and his failing body may not last long enough for the tech to be ready. As danger mounts, Caro finds more than she bargained for: murder, love, and a deep disturbing look into the nature of reality. Editorial Reviews "Robert Lanza is one of the most exciting thinkers of our time, and his novel, Observer, is a thrilling exploration of his most daring theories, a thought-provoking page-turner that asks the most profound question of our existence—what is our role in the true nature of reality?" —Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author, Dark Matter "Nancy Kress is one of the greatest living science fiction writers, and her particular talent for telling stories about people on the cutting edge of science tipping into something new and marvelous is perfectly suited to the ideas that have come to Robert Lanza in the course of his groundbreaking scientific research. Together they've written a startling, fascinating novel." ―Kim Stanley Robinson, New York Times bestselling author "Robert Lanza has taken the gigantic step of incorporating his ideas into a science fiction novel with Nancy Kress. This brilliant book will take you deep into quantum physics, where these often-complex concepts are illuminated through a riveting and moving story... Observer breaks down the materialistic model of ourselves and the world that we've come to believe as reality. It is the leading-edge scientists such as Dr. Robert Lanza who will help take humanity out of the dark ages and into a new world." ―Rhonda Byrne, #1 New York Times bestselling author, The Secret "Real science and limitless imagination combine in a thrilling story you won't soon forget." ―Robin Cook, #1 New York Times bestselling author, Coma (and 37 other international bestsellers) "Lanza, a pioneer in the fields of stem-cell and cloning science, makes his mind-blowing theory of biocentrism the focus of this brilliant Crichtonesque thriller, coauthored with SF veteran Kress...The authors imagine what the implications of that would be, integrating them into a page-turning plot complete with betrayals, violent deaths, and difficult moral choices." ―Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Mind-bending ... A novel full of life-affirming ideas that's likely to make readers rethink concepts of time and space. A thought-provoking fictional examination of big ideas." —Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "The viewpoint character is a brilliant neurosurgeon unwillingly drawn into a secret scientific project designed to prove that the generally accepted view of reality is completely wrong... a compelling story filled with believable characters" ―The Guardian "Nancy Kress is a master storyteller, and her trademark empathy is on every page. Even as we venture into the heady territory of quantum physics and the nature of reality that Robert Lanza is known for, we never lose track of Caro, the brilliant surgeon who'll do anything to save the people she loves. Observer is the best of science and fiction—an intellectual adventure with real heart." ―Daryl Gregory, award-winning author of Spoonbenders "Fantastical ... Do we each create our own reality? Special relativity and quantum mechanics have provided solid grounding for the idea that the act of observation has an effect on external phenomena... Observer includes plot twists that are ripped from the headlines, including social-media shaming, drone technology and dark-web villainy." ―GeekWire/Alan Boyle, former NBC News & MSNBC Science Editor " Observer is one of my Best Books. Hopeful, inspirational; heartwrenching and heartwarming; infuriating and invigorating, Observer is the seamless collaboration of two excellent authors with a firm grasp of science and a flair for speculative science fiction. The quantum science is graspable, illuminating, inspiring. I read it in one session and had no situational awareness of my surroundings, as I was so deeply into the novel. I came away hopeful, excited, inspired, determined! This is a novel I expect to return to again and again and again." ―NetGalley/Goodreads, Cobwebby Eldritch, "Top 100 reviewer all time in The United States" Robert Lanza is a renowned scientist and author whose peer-reviewed research spans many fields, from biology to theoretical physics. He is the bestselling author of the nonfiction biocentrism trilogy ( Biocentrism , Be