Resolve (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798215223574)

The Reset trilogy is a series of science, political and realist fiction novels. Book 1, Resolve chronicles the negotiated geoengineering of Earth to avoid nuclear annihilation, overpopulation and ecological disaster. Future books will portray the terraforming, societal survival and recovery through feasible developing technologies over the first six months and the subsequent reconstitution of global governing from the personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters. The trilogy spans a 2 year period of resolution, resettlement and recovery. Ultimately more utopian than dystopian, the story focuses on egalitarian, sociological, and actual scientific advances made and applied set in a time and place that are true to life (i.e. that could actually happen in the real world), abiding by real-world laws of nature. They depict real people, places, and stories in order to be as truthful as possible.

As a fictional imitatio trilogy of the conflict induced cooperation to instigate and the potential consequences of geoengineering sunlight reflection, the fundamental feature is covert use of history and science without parody to create a realist scenario for the near future using the memory and reverence for the great men of the past as heroes to be imitated.

Realist and other scholars commonly hold that rationally led states can and sometimes do fight when no peaceful bargains exist that both would prefer to war. Against this view, this book shows that under very broad conditions there will exist negotiated settlements that genuinely rational states would mutually prefer.