Not many people have read my novels because they are extremely dense and technical near future stuff, but I've made interesting friends from writing those books. In fact, one contact I made basically paid for the whole two year investment in writing the novel.
I know a very successful writer of thrillers and he said that the technical content of the books would have to be completely stripped down to maybe what's contained in a few chapters of my book in order for it to be mainstream accessible.
Since you asked: Here's my first novel: "The Undeserving Future" https://a.co/d/aQ1Nn4G which is basically 1984 and Brave New World but for a future dystopia based on eco-totalitarianism instead of Stalinism. It's also got a lot more jokes than those dour books. It has a completely novel economic system that might even work to implement permanent ecological sustainability in a less awful way than central planning everything.
The second novel draft is done and is being edited. It's about AI, Mars Colonization, and how humanity gets past the limits to growth and to the next stage of human history past the one we're currently in and takes place in the same universe as the first book. Here's an excerpt that describes a particularly soft and comfy AI doom: https://open.substack.com/pub/botsfordism/p/the-bot
I know a very successful writer of thrillers and he said that the technical content of the books would have to be completely stripped down to maybe what's contained in a few chapters of my book in order for it to be mainstream accessible.