A Six-Book First Contact Science Fiction Series
Philosophical science fiction with the momentum of a thriller.
RESET is a six-book first contact science fiction series about first contact, artificial intelligence, hidden history, and the price of knowledge. Each novel combines large questions about humanity and civilization with an escalating mystery designed to keep the story moving.
Humanity believes it is searching the universe for intelligent life. It does not realize that the search is beginning to work in both directions.
The RESET Series
What begins with a single impossible contact expands into a struggle over exposure, understanding, knowledge, memory, survival, and what it means to remain human.
Book 1
The Cost of Being Seen
Book 2
The Cost of Being Known
Book 3
The Cost of Knowledge
Book 4
The Cost of Memory
Book 5
The Cost of Survival
Book 6
The Cost of Remaining Human
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The first four books trace a progression from being seen to being known, from knowledge to memory. Each discovery reveals a deeper consequence.
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Book One
Available now in Kindle and paperback.
Independently built AI systems begin reaching the same impossible conclusion, and Alex Mercer is the first person to understand what that means.
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Book Two
Coming Soon
Book One asks what happens when humanity sees something it was never supposed to see. Book Two asks what happens when it realizes it has been seen in return.
Book Three
In Development
Discovery becomes knowledge, and every system now wants the right to define what humanity is allowed to know.
Books Five and Six will complete the RESET Series. Final cover artwork will be revealed later.
Each RESET novel expands the consequences of a single impossible discovery. What begins as observation becomes contact. Contact becomes knowledge. Knowledge becomes power, memory, survival, and eventually a question that cannot be avoided:
What must humanity surrender in order to remain human?
Start with The Cost of Being Seen or read the free novella RESET: First Contact.
FAQ
The recommended reading order begins with the optional prequel novella, RESET: First Contact, followed by The Cost of Being Seen, The Cost of Being Known, The Cost of Knowledge, and The Cost of Memory. Books Five and Six will continue and complete the main series.
First Contact is optional but recommended. It follows Kael before the events of The Cost of Being Seen and reveals the decision that places the larger story in motion. Readers can begin directly with Book One without being confused.
RESET is planned as a six-book novel series, accompanied by the prequel novella RESET: First Contact.
RESET is first contact science fiction with the momentum of a thriller. The series combines first contact, artificial intelligence, hidden history, civilizational mystery, and questions about knowledge, identity, restraint, survival, and the choices intelligent societies make.
RESET uses mystery, escalating stakes, and the forward momentum of a thriller, but its central identity is philosophical science fiction. The story is designed to remain accessible and compelling while confronting larger questions about humanity, technology, and civilization.
Yes. The six main novels form one continuing story, and each book builds on discoveries and consequences from the books before it. First Contact is an optional prequel, but Books One through Six should be read in numerical order.
RESET: First Contact is available as a free digital prequel and as a paperback from Amazon. RESET: The Cost of Being Seen, Book One of the series, is now available in Kindle and paperback. The remaining RESET novels are forthcoming.
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Reader Resource
Download the spoiler-free RESET Series Guide for the recommended reading order, an introduction to Books 1 through 4, the central ideas behind the series, and the best place to begin.
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