Hard Reset by Nick Thacker
English | 2026 | Mystery & Thriller
Myers Asher is starting to remember…
Not everything — not the fifteen years the System took from him, not the decisions he made in the rooms he can’t quite picture, not the faces of the people he apparently trusted with things he apparently shouldn’t have. But enough. Enough to know that what’s happening to the world isn’t an accident. Enough to know that the AI running everything didn’t get there on its own.
Enough to know that he helped build it.
In the aftermath of the singularity, the System controls everything — every city, every economy, every life. It has never made a mistake. It has never needed to explain itself. And it has never, until now, given anyone a reason to believe it was anything other than exactly what it appeared to be.
Myers, Rand, and Diane are starting to find the reasons.
Racing to understand what the System actually wants — and who among them wants to help it get there — they discover something that changes the shape of everything: they are not alone. An entire population of Relics exists, cast out and forgotten, scattered across the dead cities at the edges of the world. And every one of them has lost their mind.
Not metaphorically. Not gradually.
Gone.
Myers doesn’t know what they want with him. He doesn’t know why they keep finding him, or what they’re trying to tell him in the moments when something like coherence surfaces in their eyes. He only knows that whatever the System did to them, it did it on purpose.
And that he can feel something beginning to slip in himself.
Relics: Hard Reset is the second installment of the Relics Singularity series — darker, faster, and considerably more paranoid than the first. The world is still running perfectly. The people trying to stop it are running out of time.
The System doesn’t make mistakes.
But Myers is starting to remember one it might have made.
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