

To halt extinction, everything in the Four Cities is carefully predicted and carefully controlled … even love.īut how can you control love and freedom? In the engrossing prequel to Reset, Preset weaves the tales of Eleanor, the Crone, and Eli, the Planner, before and after the creation of the Four Cities. There were quite a few mysteries left on the table at the end of Reset perhaps the answers lie in the past?Īfter the Last War destroyed most of the world, survivors formed a new society in four self-sustaining cities in the Mojave Desert. This month Dahlan is back with a prequel novel called Preset, which explores how the Four Cities came to exist in the first place.

The idea is that are forced to shed their attachments, traumas, and preconceptions, society will run better. In the Four Cities, people’s memories are wiped every four years. Sarina Dahlan’s debut novel Reset was a thought-provoking literary sci-fi story which asked the question: can you still love someone you don’t remember?

We head next to a post-apocalyptic utopia in the Mojave Desert. Discover Blackstone Publishing’s “Preset” by Sarina Dahlan on Amazon.
