The Eden Syndrome
Author: Thomas Tortorich
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Published: 2021-05-16
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ISBN-13: 9780985553586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSolarpunk / Positive FuturismThe Global Change Movement has begun...The Eden Syndrome targets our collective desire for global change, appealing to the expanding market for Solapunk: "speculative fiction that revolts against despair." Thought-provoking and generally hopeful in tone, the novel also peers into the dark side of human behavior. The unexpected climax tackles a timely and sensitive issue in a no-holds-barred evisceration of toxic masculinity. The Eden Syndrome is a rallying cry to fight for the future. The year is 2107. After a tumultuous century that included a global stock market collapse in 2054, the world has been carbon neutral for a decade, and the Cambrian Effect has repopulated most of Earth's species. But what started the global change? The Eden Syndrome is a tale of the unlikely origins of hope in Earth's future and the Black Swan that started a domino effect. The privately-funded Sahara Foundation has secretly established Earth's first lunar colony using Self-Evolving Intelligence (S.E.I.). The Foundation's Janus-faced director, K.J. Kreige, is driven by an unforgivable sin. The Foundation's flamboyant financier, Jonas Prout, also has ulterior motives.Frustrated by the exploitation of his life's work, former CyberBiologist Quinn Delterra lives in the remote Amazon with his wife, Quinci, but his life's work comes back to haunt him when the humanoid S.E.I.s on the moon evolve self-awareness, consciousness and cold fusion. Quinn must finish what he started two decades ago and help Lei, the leader of the S.E.I.s, take her final step in becoming sentient. Their fates, and the fate of humanity, converge in a remote Kichwa village in the Amazon, and halfway across the world in an underground facility deep in the Maghreb region of the Northern Sahara.