The Carrier Wave

What if you woke up trapped inside a child's teddy bear, fully aware, and unable to move?

Dr. Julian Reyes has spent four years chasing one impossible question: where does human consciousness actually come from? When an experiment on himself goes wrong, he finds the answer in the worst possible way. His body vanishes from a sealed lab, and his mind wakes up behind two glass eyes and a red bowtie, with no voice, no movement, and no way home.

The Carrier Wave follows Julian as he is passed from stranger to stranger across a single city, each of them carrying a quiet loneliness of their own. A man who spent his whole life talking now has to learn, for the first time, how to truly listen, and his only hope of getting home depends on it.

But his connection to the bear is failing by the hour, and not everyone wants him found.

Part science fiction mystery, part meditation on grief and human connection, The Carrier Wave is a debut novel about a man who loses everything that made him human and discovers, in the process, what being human actually meant.