"Fresh, exciting, and persuasive." - BookLife "Mind-bending....and highly recommended!" - The Wishing Shelf Awards Consciousness in a Nutshell is an award-winning work of creative nonfiction that takes the reader on a psychological trip through the concepts of consciousness, perception, and thought. A neuroscientist trapped in a room without doors or windows writes a letter to a stranger explaining everything he knows about consciousness-in exchange for one little favor. Written in the style of creative nonfiction, this semi-autobiographical tale follows two young neuropsychopharmacologists on the verge of publishing a major breakthrough, when one of them (only identified by the name "Ava") winds up missing, and the other finds himself trapped in a room without doors or windows. Faced with impending doom, "James" decides to write a letter to a total stranger explaining everything he and his partner discovered so his entire life won't have been for nothing. In a sentence, it's a multi-disciplinary answer to the question, "What is consciousness?" told through the vehicle of a story. In a couple sentences, it's everything worth knowing about the subject, rendered into a psychological thriller. A multimodal conversation that spans the fields of psychology, cosmology, philosophy, coding, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. In a few hundred pages, it's Consciousness in a Nutshell: A Psychonautical Odyssey, an undefinable, genre-bending literary tour-de-force featuring 500 unique, citable sources.