Hubris Rising: When Science Fiction Starts Reading Like a Policy Brief

When I released Synthetic Eden last month, I thought I was publishing a science fiction novel. Turns out, I was writing a policy memo in disguise.

That first book — the story of scientists escaping an engineered ecological collapse — hit a nerve because it sounded uncomfortably plausible. Readers told me it didn’t feel like the future; it felt like a Tuesday.

That’s where the Echoes of Tomorrow project began — not as entertainment, but as an experiment. What if fiction could do what white papers c...