The Eden Syndrome

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 appeals to the expanding market for Solarpunk: "optimistic Speculative Fiction that revolts against despair." Thought-provoking and generally hopeful in tone, The Eden Syndrome also peers into the dark side of human behavior. K.J. Kreige, in many ways the embodiment of toxic masculinity, becomes the final victim of his own unforgivable sin in the surprising and unexpected climax. The Eden Syndrome is a rallying cry to fight for the future and build a better world.

The Global Change Movement has begun....

The privately-funded Sahara Foundation has secretly established Earth's first lunar colony by using artificial lifeforms who possess Self-Evolving Intelligence (S.E.I.). The Foundation's Janus-faced director, K.J. Kreige, is driven by an unforgivable sin.

Quinn Delterra, a former employee, lives in the remote Amazon with his wife, Quinci. He's frustrated by the exploitation of his life's work. But now Quinn must finish what he started and help Lei, the leader of the group of artificial lifeforms, take her final step in becoming sentient. Their fates, and the fate of humanity, converge in a remote Kichwa village in the Amazon and on the lunar colony.

The Eden Syndrome takes place in two very different settings: artificial life on the moon's surface and an aboriginal way of life in the Amazon, a contrast that explores what it truly means to be human.