Recursion

by Blake Crouch

MEMORY MAKES REALITY.

That's what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a 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 disease—a 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 page-turner and an intricate science-fiction puzzle box about time, identity, and memory, Recursion is a thriller as only Blake Crouch could imagine it—and his most ambitious, mind-boggling, irresistible work to date.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Thriller, Audiobook, Time Travel, Book Club, Mystery

329 pages, Hardcover

First published June 11, 2019

About the author

Blake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of the forthcoming novel, Dark Matter, for which he is writing the screenplay for Sony Pictures. His international-bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy was adapted into a television series for FOX, executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan, that was Summer 2015’s #1 show. With Chad Hodge, Crouch also created Good Behavior, the TNT television show starring Michelle Dockery based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. He has written more than a dozen novels that have been translated into over thirty languages and his short fiction has appeared in numerous publications including Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Crouch lives in Colorado with his family.

Reviews

[Christian Dalager]

Jeg har været en lortefar i flere dage på grund af den skide bog, som jeg hele tiden lige skulle læse lidt videre i. Så hvis du gerne vil være nærværende overfor andre mennesker, eller har nogle vigtige gøremål der giver dig problemer, hvis de bliver udskudt vil jeg bestemt ikke anbefale denne bog.
Hvis det ikke er et problem for dig, skal du læse den, synes jeg.

[Malte Rask]

Recursion af Blake Crouch er en sindssygt gennemtænkt og kreativ tilgang til tidsrejser. Det er et genialt skrevet koncept, hvor menneskets minder kan ændres og styre selve tiden. For hvem er vi overhovedet, hvis vores hukommelse kan ændres? Midt i det hurtige tempo gemmer der sig også store følelser, hvor karakterernes sorg og desperation kommer i centrum. Jeg skulle godt nok have tungen lige i munden, men endte med at blive fuldstændig fordybet. Lige noget for en sci-fi-elsker som mig.

[Mayamisimo]

4,5 stjerner fordi jeg føler mig lidt gavmild. Meget interessant plot.

[Mathias Prasse]

DNF pga. plothuller og teknologi der fungerer på en ulogisk måde selv indenfor bogens egne rammer. Kunne ellers godt lide måden den er skrevet på samt noir-elementerne og tematikken. Kan bare ikke leve mig ind i det når det er så logisk usammenhængende.

[Kåre Storgaard]

Kunne godt lide Blakes sidste bog (Dark Matter), så fandt tilfældigt hans nye i boghandlen.
Recursion er en SciFi spændingsbog og jeg læste den næsten i ét stræk - Spændende plot, et par gode hovedpersoner og mange øjeblikke, hvor mit hoved sprang i luften på grund af rekursioner i historien.
Klart en anbefaling herfra.

[Dennis]

Da jeg var færdig med denne bog, læste jeg den igen. Nogle folk vågner op med minder om at andet liv. Og en politimand begynder at undersøge fænomenet False Memory Syndrome.

[Anna Bastholm]

DEN KAN DA IKKE BARE SLUTTE SÅDAN!!!

[Simon Cordes]

Vanvittig bog. Hold da op. Stående applaus