A Six-Book Speculative Science-Fiction Series
The RESET Series
Humanity believes it is searching the universe for intelligent life. It does not realize that the search is beginning to work in both directions.
RESET is a speculative science-fiction series about artificial intelligence, first contact, hidden civilizations, memory, power, survival, and the systems that reshape humanity before anyone understands their true cost.
Reading Order
Companion Novella
RESET: First Contact
Free Prequel Novella
An optional companion novella set before Book One, following the decision that ends generations of silence.
Optional companion novella. It can be read before Book One.
Book One
The Cost of Being Seen
Preorder now. Available August 14, 2026.
An impossible object appears above the Pacific, and Alex Mercer recognizes the deeper pattern beneath the explanation the world is ready to believe.
Book Two
The Cost of Being Known
Coming Soon
The world has seen the impossible. Now something impossible knows Alex Mercer by name.
Book Three
The Cost of Knowledge
Forthcoming
First contact has become knowledge, and every system now wants the right to define what humanity is allowed to know.
Book Four
The Cost of Memory
Forthcoming
Book Five
The Cost of Survival
Forthcoming
Book Six
The Cost of Remaining Human
Forthcoming
One Discovery Changes Everything
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.
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