An email has just floated in from Amazon announcing the ten finalists in its Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest — and one of them, The Prospect of My Arrival by Chicago’s Dwight Okita, is an SF novel. 

In Chicago of 2025, the experimental Pre-Born Project at the Infinity Medical Center has inserted the consciousness of a fetus into the unoccupied body of a 30-year-old man, who will visit seven Referrals before deciding whether he chooses to be born. In lesser hands, this odd premise might have veered into political diatribe or slapstick. Instead, the protagonist, called Prospect, takes the reader on an engrossing and moving journey into the meaning of life, filled with fresh observations and memorable characters. Addressing the reader with a voice that skillfully blends innocence and wisdom, this latter-day Candide discovers unexpected connections among his Referrals and lands in jeopardy that keeps the pages turning until its satisfying and touching conclusion.

Check it out, and if you like it, give it a vote.  Nice to see people taking the genre seriously.