"A cerebral page-turner of the highest order."
- Barnes & Noble on The God Particle
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The God Particle
My second novel, The God Particle,
is a blend of science and suspense, where a
high-energy physicist searching for the underlying structure
of the universe finds truth in an unlikely place--the mind
of a man who survived a near-fatal head injury.I always fry a few brain cells whenever I think about how strange and amazing the universe is.
I always fry a few brain cells whenever I think about how strange and amazing the universe is, that we're even in it. So I decided to write a book that reads like I feel about the whole thing. The central question explored in The God Particle is posed in the following exchange between two characters in Chapter Two:
"...when you think of the interaction of all those particles and energy, and gravity collapsing matter into stars, and some of those stars exploding, ejecting heavier elements that eventually end up as planets orbiting stars, including at least one that somehow produced an organism complex enough to ask questions of the universe that spawned it--hell, I don't know if 'miracle' is a big enough word to describe something like that."
"...all that randomness, all those accidents.doesn't that seem a little--I don't know--coincidental to you?"
Read more about The God Particle:
Short summary : : Excerpt : : Conception
& research for The God Particle
Rift
My first novel, Rift, was released
in hardcover by Ballantine Books in June 2004. It is the story of Cameron Fisher,
a man who volunteers to test a teleportation machine that
his company plans to market as a transit system. But when
something goes horribly wrong with the test, he finds himself
on the run, trying to find out what's wrong with his body
(and his life) before the experimenters have him killed.
Read more about Rift:
Short summary : : Excerpt : : The science & technology of Rift
Praise for Rift
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Short fiction
If
you're interested to see the development of an author's prose, you're welcome
to check out my short stories. I wrote a lot of these before I sold my first
novel, and I was really proud of them at the time. I'll post a new one from
time to time, and I welcome any feedback.
I was so impressed by Lonesome Dove that I decided to try my hand at a
story set in the old west, but my skills weren't really up to the task.
Written when I was 25.
The Spirit of Lana Jones