The Rez

THE REZ is a sci-fi adventure story that follows Preen and Sav, two futuristic characters. While their society allows citizens to select how they look (skin color, hairstyle, added features like wings, fins, pointy ears), what information and learning people can access is restricted, censored, and limited to JEF, an artificial intelligence system -- controlling almost everything in their world -- even the food they eat! Their world has done away with brick-and-mortar schools, and libraries are obsolete. While learning and expertise are gained more efficiently through JEF, Preen and Sav find a historic phone that allows them to communicate with the kids of today (pastlings). The pastlings share strange ideas, like what it truly means to be a friend and how to show kindness to others. Through careful research, Preen and Sav access history as a way to find that social and emotional support and the well-being of others are unknown in their current world. Through their adventures, the two encounter many people and historical items that help them bring kindness and transparency back into society. The story shares their resistance endeavors to bring JEF down in an effort to help people think and do things for themselves once again. Unfortunately, JEF is much harder to defeat than one might think.