ReStart: Stories of the Cairn Age

By Scott A. Bollens

In post-chaos 2052, a re-programmed investigator seeks to uncover the possibilities for independent human thinking after decades of humankind's addiction to a dominating computer network. This computer network wreaked havoc in society by redefining geographies, segregating populations, and creating catastrophic wars between computer-defined groups.

Amidst the unexplained cessation of the interconnect network, Jared Rohde faces vexing challenges in his search for a dependable truth, bedeviled by personal frailties and psychic seizures, puzzling encounters with traumatized individuals in war-torn cities, professional linkages to a mysterious ReStart organization advocating societal reform, and the pervasive effects of the mind-bending computer super-network. In attempting to restart society based on human cognition, individuals struggle between the hard work of re-gaining independent cognition and an addictive longing for the personal freedom of un-thinking instinctual reactivity to computer stimuli.

In ReStart: Stories of the Cairn Age by Scott Bollens, we experience a near future both eerily familiar and disturbing, an anthropological narrative of the effects of algorithmic sorting, of social engineering gone awry. As his investigation deepens, Rohde's self-identity and the survival strategy of the algorithmic network intertwine, raising shocking implications for the future of human consciousness.

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"A fascinating and unique dystopian novel that offers profound thoughts and moments of contemplation, along with genuine, deeply layered characters." - Terri Stepak, ReaderViews.com

"Highly intriguing and compulsively readable. An authentically crafted and frighteningly plausible world." - BookView

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1639880151
• ISBN13: 9781639880157
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Atmosphere Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"