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Recursion
A Science Fiction Novel by Blake Crouch
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Time Travel,
- Techno-Thriller,
- Memory Manipulation
This book is for you if you're into...
- Memory-driven time travel with reality-bending consequences
- Science fiction that spirals into existential chaos
- Stories where regret and identity collide in high-stakes ways
From Little Stack
I love the idea behind Recursion: time travel happens through memory. A neuroscientist develops technology that can preserve memories that can be re-experienced, but if that memory is lived vividly enough, it can effectively be “overwritten” in the brain. This can lead to “False Memory Syndrome”, in which people remember multiple versions of their lives.
Recursion follows the neuroscientist, Helena Smith, and a NYPD detective investigating a suicide that ultimately is linked to FMS. Like all the author’s works, it’s cinematic, fast-paced, and a gripping read, but delivers a fascinating look into the consequences of letting regret drive your choices, and how memories define who we are.
Reality is broken. At first, it looks like a disease. An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. But the force that’s sweeping the world is no pathogen. It’s just the first shock wave, unleashed by a stunning discovery—and what’s in jeopardy is not our minds but the very fabric of time itself.
In New York City, Detective Barry Sutton is closing in on the truth—and in a remote laboratory, neuroscientist Helena Smith is unaware that she alone holds the key to this mystery . . . and the tools for fighting back. Together, Barry and Helena will have to confront their enemy—before they, and the world, are trapped in a loop of ever-growing chaos.
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