La Mesa author explores a ‘Reset’ life in new book

Much contemporary science fiction portrays the future Earth as a cruel, dark place, where our civilizations have been destroyed or conquered by evil forces. Think about the wasteland of “Mad Max” and the poverty in “The Hunger Games.”

Asian American writer Sarina Dahlan of La Mesa imagines a kinder, gentler tomorrow in “Reset,” her first published novel, which will be released on Tuesday. It also will be part of a virtual authors conversation sponsored by the Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore on May 31.

“Reset” takes place 200 years after the Last War, which has wiped out most of the world’s population. The people living in four futuristic concept cities deep in the Mojave Desert survive the devastation, so they and their descendants are able to live in carefully planned peaceful harmony governed by benevolent artificial intelligence programmers. You might say, a…