![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Barry grapples with the effects of a newly-arisen and woefully misunderstood disease called False Memory Syndrome, which causes people to suddenly remember entire lifetimes they never actually lived, like something from a dream, but recalled as vividly as reality.Ĭasual readers will no doubt figure out the two narratives are connected in some way, but just how they're connected will surprise even seasoned fans of genre fiction. She's ultimately approached by a shadowy entity offering a too-good-to-be-true deal: unlimited funding for Helena's invention, if she agrees to cloister herself on an offshore oil rig-turned research lab. ![]() The narrative splits its time between Barry Sutton, an alcoholic New York City detective still reeling from the death of his teenage daughter a decade prior, and Helena Smith, a scientific genius obsessed with constructing a device that can essentially record memories-a DVR for the mind-in the hopes of preserving what is left of her dementia-stricken mother's brain. I loved this novel, but Crouch has outdone himself with Recursion. ![]() Author of fourteen books to date, including the Wayward Pines trilogy, which became the basis for the Fox television series of the same name, Crouch first came to my attention with his 2016 novel Dark Matter (read the LitReactor review here). Blake Crouch seems to have mastered the art of blending complex science fiction, mystery, human drama, and psychological horror with his latest novel Recursion, available now from Penguin Random House. ![]()
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