Sci-Fi Friday: The Experiment Is Trending
Synthetic Eden is currently top 20 on Amazon's Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi list, so we're running a $0.00 deal to thank you. Join the experiment.
Every once in a while, the algorithm blinks.
Not breaks. Not explodes. Just…blinks. Long enough for something strange, thoughtful, and slightly uncomfortable to slip through.
That’s what this week feels like.
Right now, Synthetic Eden—the opening transmission in Echoes of Tomorrow—is sitting at #19 on Amazon’s Genetic Engineering Science Fiction list. Not because of a celebrity blurb. Not because of a marketing blitz. But because a quiet experiment is running in the open.
For a limited time, the Kindle edition is $0.00.
Free, yes—but not empty.
This story asks a question that’s been humming beneath TCIP for years: what happens when our most powerful technologies mature faster than our shared sense of responsibility? When survival demands intervention. When nature is no longer something we protect—but something we rewrite.
In Synthetic Eden, humanity doesn’t fall because it stops innovating. It falls because innovation becomes inevitable. Genetic engineering isn’t a plot device—it’s infrastructure. A last tool picked up not out of hubris, but necessity. And once you open that door, the story isn’t really about science anymore.
It’s about choice.
Seeing this book climb into the top 20—organically, briefly, precariously—feels like a signal worth pausing on. It suggests there’s an audience hungry not just for faster ships or louder battles, but for stories that wrestle with consequence. With the moral lag between what we can do and what we should do.
Sci-fi has always been our rehearsal space for the future. A way to test ideas before reality makes them irreversible.
So if you’ve ever read TCIP and thought, this feels like science fiction already—this is the on-ramp. If you’ve ever wondered what FABRIC technologies look like when they stop being acronyms and start shaping lives, this is one possible answer.
The $0.00 window won’t last. Rankings never do. But the conversation does—every time a reader steps into the experiment and carries the questions forward.
At the frontier of technology, humanity is still the experiment.
Happy Sci-Fi Friday.
-Titus