In this science fiction story, readers embark on a strange journey. They encounter “unfortunate souls” who “because they had no religion” cannot pray and ask for mercy. Meanwhile, they meet Professor Simona Gupta, one of the world’s foremost medical researchers. Readers also encounter a strange healing method, handwaving, that seems to cure even the worst afflictions. However, the strange energies and even stranger experiments unite a variety of characters. Meanwhile, the development of a new insulin has the power to revolutionize science, medicine, and everyday life. The advances further establish Simona Gupta as a revolutionary researcher. More so, readers embark on a journey that asks them some important questions about their own existences and purposes.

This novel emerges at a unique time when people are challenging or even reconsidering the influence of big pharmaceutical companies on their lives. The book also arrives at a time when technology is dramatically altering medical and scientific research. In essence, the journeys readers take with each of this novel’s characters challenge them to think about the question “What’s next?” It is a question they can consider individually, socially, and universally. The novel also challenges readers to think about humanity–and sometimes the lack thereof–involved in medical research. Characters like Simona Gupta, too, represent the incalculable personal investments of time and energy researchers make during their attempts to improve humanity. This is definitely a thinking person’s science fiction story, one that will inspire people to pay closer attention to the role science and research—and even science fiction—play in their lives.

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