The Gen Experiment
He runs for glory on a dead planet. She fights for air on the Moon. Earth has been waiting for them both.
The world ended in greed and deception. The cities are skeletal ruins, the seas are dust bowls, and humanity now clings to life on the Moon in sterile outposts like Gagarin and Aldrin City - where air is work, water is rationed, and it doesn't come free anymore.
Down on Earth, there is only one reason to go back.
The Runners.
Elite athletes wired into neuro-suits that make man and machine one. It's not like running fast - it IS running. Air forced past your face at the speed of wind, impact shocks through your soles, pain if a tendon snaps. Like a flying dream you can never get enough of. To millions watching from the lunar settlements, they are heroes.
Mac is the best of them.
He lives simply on the fringes of Gagarin to avoid the fame. Imagination has always been his strongest muscle. He runs because it's the only time he feels truly free.
Riva is the reason he should stop.
A redhead in orange overalls working the night shift at Aircon 3 keeping thousands alive. She loves her Runner, but she knows the truth no fan wants to hear: No Runner lives past fifty cycles.
On a million-to-one malfunction, Mac's suit fails at full sprint. He falls backwards - the one fall the designers never imagined - and wakes to a face over him fitting an oxycon to his nose and mouth.
She is a Gen. A child of the Genesis Project. The experiment Earth ran to survive the unsurvivable. For generations, the Gens have lived, mutated, and remembered in the dry grass plains of Newholt while the Moon believed Earth was empty.
From the Racecam rooms of Aldrin City to the kengairoo plains of a reborn Australia, from first love to first contact, from The Runner to Terran Town - Mac and Riva must bridge two worlds that have forgotten each other.
The Gen Experiment is a sweeping, intimate Australian science fiction adventure for fans of classic, idea-driven sci-fi with heart.
Perfect for readers who love:
Post-apocalyptic survival and first contactExtreme sport, neuro-tech, and the price of transcendenceA love story under pressure where air isn't freeWhat humanity becomes when left alone to evolve - and who truly inherits the EarthThe race is over. The restoration has just begun. Are you ready to run?
If you like idea-driven, human-driven science fiction with heart - in the spirit of John Wyndham, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Kim Stanley Robinson - you will love this complete, standalone adventure.Customer Reviews
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