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Recursion

By: Blake Crouch
Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom, Abby Craden
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Publisher's Summary

A breathtaking 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. 

What if someone could rewrite your entire life?

'My son has been erased.' 

Those are the last words the woman tells Barry Sutton before she leaps from the Manhattan rooftop. Deeply unnerved, Barry begins to investigate her death, only to learn that this wasn’t an isolated case. All across the country, people are waking up to lives different than the ones they fell asleep to. 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?

Miles away, neuroscientist Helena Smith is developing a technology that allows us to preserve our most intense memories and relive them. 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.

Barry’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...at the risk of destroying what it means to be human.

©2019 Blake Crouch (P)2019 Penguin Random House LLC

Critic Reviews

"Recursion takes mind-twisting premises and embeds them in a deeply emotional story about time and loss and grief and most of all, the glory of the human heart." (Gregg Hurwitz, international best-selling author of Orphan X)

"A fantastic read." (Andy Weir, number one New York Times best-selling author of The Martian)

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Insanely good!!

One of the best books I've ever listened to or read.
I just can't stop thinking about it all the twists and turns. Brilliant.

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garbage.

i wish I didn't waste my money. I could barely finish it. after about halfway it turned to rubbish.

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Amazing. Buy it now.

Loved this book. I couldn’t put it down and listened to it in a few days. Will be top five books of the year easily. You won’t regret it.

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At some point there will be a story

Worked through the first 12 chapters. Finally decided enough. Great work, everyone who gave this book five you clearly stayed until something actually happened. I was given a glimmer of hope when the doc went to the ex-oil rig. But then nothing happened again.
Writing is hard work, maybe this book just wasnt for me.

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my new favorite author!

worth the credit !
I cant wait to read the others , the narration is perfect.
the story thrilling and original.

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Hell of a story

What a mind bending and expanding epic story, fully engrossing, Chris Nolan esque, well worth the listen.

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delicious scrambled eggs but for your brain

What the hell just happened? felt like a fever dream with an LSD chaser

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Wow! But did our brains in…

This review may of course be written in a timeline that no longer exists. Nonetheless it is a mind bending and addictive story. Well worth the time… in any timeline!

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Thought Provoking

Wonderful story, delivered beautifully.
It took me on ride that I was thoroughly immersed in. Highly recommended.
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Mind twister

An enjoyable book that had be thinking hard trying to understand the timeline frequently (in a good way).

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