Clearly you need to present more of your work as scifi :)

As scifi incorporates more and more transhuman elements, these concepts become less radical.

I recently read the decently-written novel 'Darwinia' which spoiler takes a hard 90-degree turn partway into the story revealing the protagonist's world is really a simulation/recording, running around the time of universe's heat death, using "distortion lines in the Higgs field" as the substrate on which the simulation runs. end spoiler

I think an important lesson is that you can't always design something to be viral (look at how fickle YouTube users are)