The novel “Observer” by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress was published for the first time in 2025.

Caro “Caro” Soames-Watkins sees her career as a neurosurgeon derailed after reporting to her bosses the harassment she suffered from a highly respected colleague at her hospital. Instead of obtaining justice, she sees her report dismissed and she ends up at the center of a social media shitstorm. Her great-uncle Samuel Watkins, who is a Nobel Prize winner but barely known to her, offers her a job in the Caribbean.

When Caro visits the facility her great-uncle and his partners have set up, she gradually discovers that their research is truly radical. Their project is based on the concept of quantum biocentrism, which views the universe as the expression of an observer. They need a neurosurgeon to implant a chip in their volunteers that will allow them to literally create a new universe in which they can even see their deceased loved ones again.