Beyond The Harvest

We are inefficient engines. For all of human history, our survival has depended on a fragile chain: sunlight grows the plant, the plant stores the energy, we eat the plant. We are trapped by the harvest, bound to the soil, and at the mercy of a climate that is turning against us.

But what if we could cut out the middleman?

Project Silas is the story of a near-future world on the brink of collapse and the one man arrogant enough to think he can rewrite the laws of biology to save it. Dr. Henry Silas Shepherd doesn’t want to fix the food supply. He wants to end our reliance on it.

Evolution takes millions of years. Dr. Shepherd plans to do it in a single generation. But when you rewrite the code of humanity, you can’t always predict what the new program will do.