This novel is essential reading for those fascinated by the study of consciousness and willing to explore all the possibilities of this emerging scientific frontier. But Blake Crouch's action-packed, brilliantly unique Recursion had me up late and shirking responsibilities until I had devoured the last page. Blake Crouch answers these questions in this gripping, beautiful, and frightening story incorporating quantum theory, neuroscience, and loves that transcend time/space. 'It's not often I plough through a book in two days. at the risk of destroying what it means to be human. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent.īarry's search for the truth leads him on an impossible, astonishing journey, as he discovers that Helena's work has yielded a terrifying gift - the ability not just to preserve memories, but to remake them. Miles away, neuroscientist Helena Smith is developing a technology that allows us to preserve our most intense memories, and relive them. Are they suffering from False Memory Syndrome, a mysterious, new disease that afflicts people with vivid memories of a life they never lived? Or is something far more sinister behind the fracturing of reality all around him? All across the country, people are waking up to lives different than the ones they fell asleep to. Deeply unnerved, Barry begins to investigate her death, only to learn that this wasn't an isolated case. Those are the last words the woman tells Barry Sutton, before she leaps from the Manhattan rooftop. What if someone could rewrite your entire life? A breath-taking exploration of memory and what it means to be human, Recursion is the follow-up novel to the smash-hit thriller, Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch.
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