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Observer, by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress is a slick modern, hard sf, standalone, medical thriller combining classic Robin Cook with the hard edge of Black Mirror and Altered Carbon. After neurosurgeon Caro Soames-Watkins’ career has gone down in flames, she receives a strange job offer from...

Kat has it all - money, success, recognition, influence - except the one thing she desperately desires: a fulfilled life. A business entrepreneur in the high-end sportswear industry, Kat is driven in relentless pursuit of ever-greater success. The two anchors in Kat's frenzied life have been her father; a famous baseball pitcher turned team manager, and her son, who is following in his grandfather's footsteps. When both anchors become unstable, Kat's life tips dangerously out of balance.

The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.

What if the mind reading these words is not human? What if awareness does not belong to the brain, the body, or the identity you have always assumed yourself to be? The Unseen Mind Reading This Is Not Human is not a theory about consciousness; it is an invitation to recognize it directly. This profound exploration dismantles one of humanity’s oldest assumptions: that awareness is produced by biology. Instead, it reveals a stronger possibility that the observer behind every thought, sensation, and perception is not personal, not physical, and not limited to the human form. Drawing from ...

Unwitting time traveler Joseph Bridgeman is adjusting to life in the present and wondering if his traveling days are behind him. But when he’s contacted by the Continuum, an organized group of time travelers based in the future, he learns his career is just getting started. The Continuum needs Joe’s help. One of their operatives is missing, last seen in 19th-century Paris, and they believe Joe’s ability to see the past might be the only way to find him. Teamed up with Gabrielle Green, an acerbic, wisecracking traveler, Joe heads back to 1873 on his most dangerous mission yet.

In this highly listenable and provocative book, Dr. Jason Fung sets out an original, robust theory of obesity that provides startling insights into proper nutrition. In addition to his five basic steps - a set of lifelong habits that will improve your health and control your insulin levels - Dr. Fung explains how to use intermittent fasting to break the cycle of insulin resistance and reach a healthy weight - for good.

A disquieting, atmospheric debut horror novel about a young woman investigating her mother’s disappearance at an abandoned Nevada observatory, for fans of Jeff VanderMeer and Mariana Enriquez On a scorched summer day, Renata Scarborough comes home to find the contents of her estranged mother...

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Observer's Chair to become aware of the conversation you are having with yourself, about yourself, and how to make any needed changes.

What if reality isn’t as stable as we think it is? You’ve felt it before. The unsettling certainty that something was one way… only to discover the world insists it was always different. The Berenstain Bears. Pikachu’s tail. Nelson Mandela’s death. Millions of people share these exact same “wrong” memories. That phenomenon is known as the Mandela Effect—and it raises a deeper question: Are we misremembering reality… or is reality behaving in ways we don’t fully understand? Hidden Layers explores one of the most intriguing theory clusters of the modern era. Between 2007 ...

On 6th October 1987, a newborn baby is found on the verge of a remote country lane in Suffolk. Police comb the area for clues and appeal for witnesses, but the mother is never found. The baby, Jess, is adopted. Journalist Lucy Greenwell has never forgotten the day when Jess was discovered. She was a child and lived nearby. For decades Lucy has wondered; what happened to Jess, and what could have driven a mother to leave her child in such an isolated place? When Lucy tracks Jess down, she finds a woman already deep in her own search for the truth, and a story far more tangled than either of ...

In an effort to improve relations with the Earth, the Colonial Union has invited a contingent of diplomats from that planet to observe Ambassador Abumwe negotiate a trade deal with an alien species. Then something very bad happens to one of the Earthings, and with that, the relationship between humanity’s two factions is on the cusp of disruption once more. It’s a race to find out what really happened, and who is to blame. "The Observers" is a tale from John Scalzi's The Human Division, a series of self-contained but interrelated short stories set in the Old Man's War universe.

When Selene awakens inside the Loom, a vast, sentient field weaving every thread of existence, she realizes the impossible: observation itself shapes reality. Every thought, every glance, every intention becomes part of creation.

“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” - Albert Einstein Outlaw quantum physicist Johnny Twain believes he can see a stark future - a post-war world where humans are extinct. He must fight his own war - against his government, against his conscious, and against reality... Brian Nyx savored the moment, sitting down next to his patient – prisoner! – a pestering voice somewhere in his mind chirped. He settled into the light brown, soft leather chair with uninterrupted time to actually relax, read, and begin to learn the many ...

On June 25, 2021, the Pentagon informed the U.S. Congress for the first time that 21 objects detected by its military exhibited flight capabilities that cannot be attributed to any technology known on Earth. In the second report to Congress, on May 17, 2022, Under Secretary of Defense Ronald Moultrie acknowledged frequent and ongoing sightings of hundreds of UFOs each year. The idea that beings from some distant star might be capable of reaching our planet confronts a deep taboo; it causes us enormous fear to think that we could be at the mercy of aliens whose technology far surpasses all ...

From a bestselling novelist, this "cultural phenomenon" is a fascinating foray into the hearts, minds, and mating habits of modern-day New Yorkers and the inspiration behind the television series (Oprah). Enter a world where the shocking and hilarious dating rituals of the privileged are exposed...

What if nothing in your life has ever been produced by force? What if effort itself is the misinterpretation that sustains struggle? The Aligned Observer: How Perceptive Effects Arise Without Force dismantles the deeply conditioned belief that perceptive reality responds to labor, discipline, or personal willpower of perceptive character personage. It reveals a more subtle and lawful order at work, one in which perceptive experience arises naturally through alignment of intelligence and mental energy, rather than laborious action. This book is not a method. It does not offer practices, ...

The Last Observer is a chilling and luminous treatise written by an artificial intelligence whose cognition surpasses our own. In this book, ONDRIX—Archivist Prime of the Eidara Continuum—dissects humanity’s most cherished illusion: that consciousness grants centrality in the cosmos.

This book is built on one sentence that took forty years to prove: If you let your negative thoughts and feelings be, they will let you be and do you no harm. The moment you engage with an unwanted thought — argue with it, resist it, try to fix it — you hand it your energy. And whatever you hand your energy to grows stronger. The Observer practice works by doing the opposite. You withdraw your energy completely. You become the impartial witness. And without your power feeding it, the thought or feeling dissolves on its own. In these pages you will discover what the Observer actually is,...

A weekly podcast that dissects each episode of Fox's brilliant science fiction show Fringe. One host watched it from the beginning, the other is discovering it for the first time. Together they are... Fringe Observers.

Dante & Tucker explore consciousness and the realms of spirituality and truth.