num_pages: 336
description: Memory makes reality.That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndromea mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It's why she's dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. 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.As Barry searches for the truth he comes face to face with an opponent more terrifying than any diseasea force that attacks not just our minds but the very fabric of the past. And as its effects begin to unmake the world as we know it only he and Helena working together will stand a chance at defeating it.But how can they make a stand when reality itself is shifting and crumbling all around them?At once a relentless pageturner and an intricate science-fiction puzzlebox about time identity and memory Recursion is a thriller as only Blake Crouch could imagine itand his most ambitious mind-boggling irresistible work to date.
language: English
title: Recursion
publisher: Ballantine Books