Observer
A Novel
Tor/Forge · Print & ebook · September 23, 2025
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- Who it’s for
- A neurosurgeon takes a job at a medical facility researching consciousness, reality, and life after death.
- Genres
- Medical Thrillers, Hard Sci-Fi, Tech Thrillers
- Published
- Tor/Forge, September 23, 2025
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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.
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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.
Consciousness Research
A neurosurgeon takes a job at a medical facility researching consciousness, reality, and life after death.
Come here for
- Research into consciousness, reality, and life after death
- A medical facility threatened by an intel leak
Expect
- An intel leak and a scientist whose body is failing
- Murder, love, and questions about the nature of reality
Where it sits
| Hard Sci-Fi | 74% |
|---|---|
| Medical Thrillers | 68% |
| Tech Thrillers | 39% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Hard Sci-Fi
- Medical Thrillers
- Authors
- Robert Lanza, Nancy Kress
- Publisher
- Tor/Forge
- Published
- September 23, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Hard Sci-Fi