Watching from Within

by Daniel Lamonte

(Out of Print - See the new 2025 2nd Edition) Watching From Within is set long into a future where thoughts are as physically powerful as deeds. Winding throughout this exciting, time-sliced tale of science fantasy, is a touching love story, a dramatic, high-tech murder investigation and a captivating account of a sect of dreadful zealots, a tech-adverse militia, dead set against the advancement of nanotechnology regardless of its benefit to humankind. In the center of each illusionary, seemingly magic-filled stream, is Dr. Jesse Baine, a young assistant research professor at New Harbor University, caught up in a chaotic nightmare from which he struggles to awaken. He is the kaleidoscopic mind behind the next major stride in the evolution of human technological achievement- whether he knows it or not! Most innovation of humanity began in the depths of kaleidoscopic minds. Whether by innate or induced madness, the genius of multi-dimensional thinking, seemingly illusionary to most, allowed our world's greatest creators to challenge the constraints placed upon them by the leaders of their day. Long before the mainstream understood the slow but steady progression of modern scientific discovery, popular opinion deemed such innovators to be lunatics. In waves of apparent insanity, such gifted ones had the audacity to question not only whether a thing was achievable but whether the norms of the day should be challenged in its wake. Then, moving forward with a leap of faith, these great conquerors of human sightlessness brought their visions of future capacities to light. Such are the chaotic yet brilliant paths of the characters found in the novel Watching From Within. Fictional pioneers in the field of nano-scale science lay a foundation for a world that few dwelling within it can comprehend. The illusionary tale questions the ethics of human implantation and extreme surveillance using microscopic machines while concurrently examining whether populist beliefs or scientific minds know best.

260 pages, Paperback

Published April 24, 2017

About the author

Daniel Lamonte writes at the crossroads of memory and imagination, where science, love, and loss collide in kaleidoscopic ways. His novels invite readers into worlds that shimmer between reality and illusion, layered with emotional truths that feel both intimate and unsettling.

In Watching From Within, he explores the fragile boundary between progress and perception, where nano-scale machines awaken questions about morality, memory, and what it means to be human. In She Once Knew, he turns inward, tracing the nonlinear landscape of love, loss, and remembrance, where what we carry, and what we forget, shapes who we become.

Though the settings differ. One drenched in speculative science (WFW), the other in raw human experience (She), both works share a voice of quiet intensity. They unfold in fragments, like memories recalled out of order, revealing meaning in their disarray. Characters are never drawn to spectacle; they are drawn to truth, however fractured.

Lamonte’s style favors the liminal. He writes in the space between reason and reverie, where silence listens, and the unseen is often what matters most. His stories remind us that invention and intimacy both begin in the same place: a mind willing to ask the questions others fear.

Reviews

[Joe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book I've ever read. Mind blowing stuff. Jesse is a great character.