Where science becomes story.

My world begins with questions, many of them born in science. I write about the moment an idea is born, the moment it's confirmed, and the moment it pushes past what's known.

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Fiction

Two completed novels explore the uneasy space between scientific possibility, human ambition, and the consequences of what we discover.

Book cover for 'The Pathology of a Girl in the Alley' by Gartz Hanson, depicting a young woman in a paramedic uniform sitting on the ground, her medical bag nearby, in a dark alley at night.

Natalia knows what she saw that night: a dead girl who should not have been alive.

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The First 10 Pages of The Pathology of a Girl in the Alley
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The ideas began as fiction. Until it wasn’t.

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The First 10 Pages of The Hinge
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What happens when discovery asks more of you than you're ready to give?

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THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE STORY

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Many of the ideas in my fiction began with real scientific research...

The Science
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About Gartz Hanson

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A neuroscientist who spent a decade watching cells fail — now he writes about what discovery costs

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