May 21, 2024, Blackstone Publishing
Sequel to the #1 bestseller Reset, Freeset is an intricate sci-fi story about found family, building hope, and learning to trust your inner voice.
Can true love break you free?
When calamity destroyed most of humanity, the Four Cities survived by carefully predicting and meticulously controlling everything in the survivors’ lives—even love. As part of this new normal, every four years the citizens face down Tabula Rasa, a process that wipes away their memories of each other.
But nothing can be controlled completely, and love will always strive to be free.
A brave handful of Dreamers, aided by Eleanor the Crone, have repeatedly managed to find each other again after Tabula Rasa, proving that the desire to connect is eternal. Scientist Aris and musician Metis, star-crossed lovers, have found each other again … along with a clue to a hidden library that could contain the memories erased by Tabula Rasa.
At long last, there is a chance for a brave, free, new world—if they can escape before the next reset.
Praises:
“A collision of our era’s catastrophes fuses a new world, becoming something rich and strange.”
Kim Stanley Robinson, Hugo Award–winning novelist on Preset
“Intricate, imaginative, and often surprising, Preset propels you through a future of warning, danger, and possibilities.”
David Brin, New York Times bestselling author on Preset
“Sarina Dahlan richly weaves philosophy, science, and dystopia through the complexities of the human psyche, relationships, and the desire to protect what we hold dearest…Preset offers a trenchant meditation on what we both lose and gain when we choose to remember.”
Jennifer Givhan, author of River Woman, River Demon on Preset
“The original concept and propulsive love story mark Dahlan as a writer to watch. Readers will be mesmerized.”
Publishers Weekly on Reset
“A hauntingly beautiful love story that explores the nexus of memory, identity and love…This would make an excellent book club read.”
Ruth Mitchell, author of Deleted on Reset