While reading Recursion, I was awed by the massive scope of his vision, made all the more satisfying by the human warmth that causes this world to feel lived-in and worth saving.

He is a meticulous, mad architect of suspense and adventure. Crouch is a novelist in the spirit of M.C. One of my favorite aspects of this book is how it thrusts you into a world of the impossible while bringing you to a deeper understanding of the world around you. In the other, a brilliant young scientist is making groundbreaking strides in the field of memory, unaware that the mysterious benefactor who funds her research may be guiding her toward a discovery so massive that soon she-and the rest of humanity-are drawn into a dangerous, world-shaking intrigue that turns reality into a treacherous labyrinth. In one, we learn of the outbreak of a mysterious condition known as False Memory Syndrome, in which sufferers are haunted by past lives and loves that exist only in their memories. Recursion-the new book from the author of 2016 Book of the Year finalist, Dark Matter-begins with dual storylines that gradually converge.

This is the sort of mind-bending and disorienting concept upon which the best science fiction is built. ' 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, author of Orphan X At first, it looks like a disease. Even the words you’re reading now are in the past. 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. Did you know that everything is a memory? By the time your brain filters and processes everything you experience, as we learn early on in Recursion, the present is already gone.

Recursion book review