What About the Scientists?

In 1991, a reckless experiment pushes a young writer, Lily, to flee and take her chances in the Alaskan wilderness. She is never heard from again. Twenty-six years later, a hiker stumbles upon a cache of documents buried in the bush which relate Lily’s account of a revolutionary drug trial in which she had agreed to be sequestered for one year. While the story’s authenticity is questionable at first, when an abandoned research facility is discovered nearby, the truth comes into focus. With the facility now overgrown and crumbling, it’s clear the study didn’t go as planned. The only question is—why? Told through found documents interspersed with a personal narrative, What About the Scientists? propels its reader through an underground world of beauty and horror driven by humanity’s desire to keep pushing its limits regardless of the consequences.