Resist the Rebalance
Advance Reader Copies available
I have finished “Rebalance Resistance,” the sequel to “Rebalance Origin,” and I can’t wait to share it with you.
The e-book will be available on April 23rd, but you can get a look at it sooner if you sign up to be an Advanced Reader!
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Now it is my pleasure to reveal….
Coming April 23!
Better dead than dipped.
Ten years ago, the Gex plague wiped out the world’s women. Desperate to survive, the totalitarian Neo-Federation turned to a chilling solution: The Rebalance. A brutal monthly lottery where men are drafted and nano-surgically transformed to replace the women humanity lost.
Eighteen-year-old Collin Larkin grew up keeping his head down, accepting this grim reality and hoping to one day earn enough to buy a Rebalanced girl of his own.
That dream dies the night his lottery number is called.
Unwilling to become a subservient “Doll” for the rich and powerful, Collin goes on the run. Teaming up with a hardened resistance operative and a cynical Rebalanced spy with dark secrets of her own, Collin must fight to overthrow the system that would emasculate and enslave him, or face a fate worse than death.
Q&A with Katie Oslow
“Rebalance Resistance,” the Sequel to “Rebalance: The Origin”
When we last left the world of Rebalance, the smoke was rising from resistance attacks, and a flicker of hope remained. In the upcoming sequel, Katie Oslow takes us a decade past the chaos and into a world where the “Rebalance” isn’t just a crisis, it’s a way of life.
I sat down with Katie to discuss the chilling evolution of this society, the “banality of evil,” and why the most terrifying monsters are the ones with government IDs.
Interviewer: Katie, the first book was about the shock of the transition. The sequel picks up ten years later. What does this “New Normal” look like?
Katie Oslow: The biggest change is that the “Rebalance” has become a part of the social fabric. Almost all women in the world are now former men who have been “Rebalanced.” They have zero personal autonomy. They are legally “Owned” by the Rebalance Authority (RBA) and leased to men who act as their “Stewards.” It’s a world of clinical, state-sponsored slavery. If a girl fails to produce a child every two years, her lease is revoked. She’s a commodity, and if she’s a “Criminal” or a “Runner,” she’s sent to public brothels as punishment.
Interviewer: That is a terrifying shift from an emergency measure to a commercial industry. How does the government sell this to the public?
Katie Oslow: Through the Department of Population Expansion (DPE). They push out constant propaganda, painting this life of sexual slavery as “domesticated motherhood.” To the high-earning stewards, they offer “doll jobs,” girls genetically manipulated in the tanks to be trophy status symbols for the rich. It’s all handled by a grinding bureaucracy that acts as though it’s just another branch of government, like the IRS.
Interviewer: You’ve introduced a new protagonist this time around, not Miranda, but a young man. Why that perspective?
Katie Oslow: He’s part of the generation that grew up in the ruins of the old world. These young men are deeply conflicted. They see the Rebalance girls as their only outlet, but they also see them with pity and fear. Why? Because of the Lottery. Any young man can be selected, taken to the tanks, and Rebalanced. To them, the “System” feels inevitable and unassailable.
Interviewer: One of the most haunting details you mentioned is the fate of “naturally born” girls, those born after the crash.
Katie Oslow: That’s where the horror of technology really peaks. Because the nanogel can only be used once and resets a body to age 20, the law dictates that natural women will be “dipped” at menopause and reset to 20 to continue breeding. They face twice as much time in the system as Rebalanced girls. The DPE has turned human life into a renewable resource.
Interviewer: This sounds much darker than the first book. What is the core theme you want readers to take away from this established dystopia?
Katie Oslow: I wanted to talk about the banality of evil. A normalized evil running efficiently can be more terrifying than moments of chaos. If most people look the other way because their own lives are stable, the “snake” grows into a dragon that eventually devours everyone.
Interviewer: In such a suffocating system, is there any room for the resistance we saw at the end of the first book?
Katie Oslow: Victory may not always mean the defeat of the “Big Evil.” Sometimes victory is just escaping for one more day. Sometimes it’s saving a single person. Sometimes, it’s just saying “no” one more time than they say “yes.”
“You stay in this fight long enough, the monster takes over. That’s fine, because the world needs monsters right now.”
-Terry Rourke Rebalance Resistance fighter.
Events!
RavenCon 2026
Katie Oslow will be attending RavenCon April 24-26 as a guest panelist!
More details to come
Pride Litcon 2026
Katie Oslow will have a table at Pride Litcon June 13-14!