SYNTOPIA EPISTEME
A Design Odyssey / SYNTOPIA / #1
with ElevenLabs Generated Full Cast Digital Voices (Narrator)
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Pub Date 15 Sep 2026 | Archive Date 16 Nov 2026
Eadna Media | Staten House
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Description
The old world is sinking...
...but one young woman is designing a new one.
Not a utopia. Not a dystopia. A syntopia.
A solarpunk floating future for stateless sea nomads. A future empires cannot tolerate.
When hired guns close in, she designs resistance.
Floating Eden Defies Empires.
As the world is being parceled out, Ayesha, born Bajau, a stateless Southeast Asian sea dweller, loses her mother in a traumatic accident. Orphaned in Sumatra, adopted in Singapore, her Leonardesque gift for drawing leads her to study design in France.
Upon returning to her beleaguered stilt village, Ayesha commits herself to helping her maritime community by prototyping self-sustaining floating islands from salvaged plastic and low-tech ingenuity, with the support of her former orphanage bully turned corporate lawyer, a retired U.S. Army engineer, and a gifted Bajau teenager.
But when her half-moon, glinting Eden draws predation, relentless pressure and intimidation from hired guns follow.
Can the Bajau keep their future afloat when land-dwellers keep dragging it under?
A Note From the Publisher
Experience AI AUDIO CINEMA™: UNABRIDGED · DRAMATIZED · FULL CAST · AI VOICES · VOICE REPLICAS · SOUND DESIGN · ORIGINAL MUSIC · IMMERSIVE · AMBIENCE
Listening recommendations:
High-quality noise-cancelling or bone-conduction headphones are strongly recommended. Several scenes use low-frequency sound, spatial detail, and environmental ambience intended to be felt as well as heard. Freedivers and casual swimmers are invited to experience the story underwater with waterproof bone-conduction headphones.
Advance Praise
We are quickly drawn into a story that moves us swiftly from place to place, from world to world, following the adventures of the brilliant Ayesha, a young woman who cannot bring herself to accept the world as it stands. She embodies an entire generation refusing to submit to the status quo and instead seeks to reconnect with other forces and forms of knowledge in order to reimagine a system built in harmony with the living world, all while continuing to fight against an old order more determined than ever not to be replaced. — Pauline - Goodreads
Marketing Plan
Further outreach is planned to academic communities interested in design fiction, speculative architecture, and sustainable futures.
Further outreach is planned to academic communities interested in design fiction, speculative architecture, and sustainable futures.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Audiobook, Unabridged |
| ISBN | 9798905140235 |
| PRICE | $18.00 (USD) |
| DURATION | 12 Hours, 1 Minutes, 48 Seconds |