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Recursion

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.

329 pages, Hardcover

First published June 11, 2019

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Blake Crouch

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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.

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Profile Image for Marija Đurđević.
244 reviews10 followers
July 2, 2022
„Želiš li da ubaciš sebe u sećanje koje se ne razlikuje mnogo od slike mrtve prirode zato što ti je život slomio srce?“

💭 Helena Smit, neuronaučnica, oduvek je želela da napravi stolicu sećanja koja bi pomogla osobama obolelim od Alchajmerove bolesti. Međutim, stvoriti takav izum koštao bi čitavo bogatstvo, njen projekat skoro niko ne bi mogao da finansira. Ali Helena dobija jednu ponudu koju neće moći da odbije. Stolica sećanja je imala prvobitnu svrhu da ljude podseti na određeni trenutak iz života, da na kratko u tim sećanjima utoli nostalgiju. Ali ludi naučnik koji je na ovom projektu radio sa Helenom unapredio je stolicu, poigravajući se ljudskim životima stvarajući lažna sećanja. Inspektor Bari uspeo je da se pomoću ove stolice vrati u period pre nesreće koja je razorila njegovu porodicu. Ali da li je to vraćanje u prošlost i ponovno življenje istog života bio blagoslov ili kazna?
Vraćanjem na neke događaje menjamo i tuđe uspomene na njih, i tada stvaramo lavirint sećanja. Svako novo prisećanje briše prethodno, pa nisi siguran šta je sindrom lažnog sećanja, a šta je istina. U rukama pravog čoveka ovaj izum bi sprečio neke ključne događaje iz prošlosti, a u pogrešnim pravu apokalipsu.

💭 Ne smem više da otkrivam, iako deluje konfuzno, ova knjiga je rolerkoster događaja, od samog početka dinamična, a neizvesna do samog kraja. A sam kraj može otvoriti novi početak lavirinta. Krauč je stvorio neki novi svet u kom bi ovaj izum možda i mogao da postoji nekada u budućnosti. Koje sećanje biste u tom slučaju vi prizvali? A koje biste rado promenili i izbrisali?

„Život sa šifrom za varanje i nije život.“

A šta vi kažete?

Od mene topla preporuka pa čak i ako niste ljubitelj naučne fantastike, ovo je knjiga koju bih preporučila svakome. Od mene čista 5⭐️.
Profile Image for Горана Ђурић.
96 reviews6 followers
November 3, 2021
Коначно сам успела да поново уживам у читању и да читам уопште! Крауч као и у Вејвард Пајнсу, не имитира свет, него прави своју верзију.
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5 reviews
February 29, 2024
"Onaj koji kontroliše prošlost, kontroliše sadašnjost. Onaj koji kontroliše sadašnjost, kontroliše budućnost."

-Džordž Orvel-


Čini mi se da sam ja jedina koja se tek upoznaje sa Blejk Kraučom. Knjiga me prosto prikovala da je pročitam u dahu, odlično napisana...ne volim previše dubioza u knjigama. Naravno, sve zavisi koji je žanr. Ono što me rastužuje što ovaj čovek ima toliko knjiga, a na našem jeziku su prevedene samo 2, bar meni poznate. Pri tome, od trilogije Wayward
Pines, samo jedna. Volela bih da se prevede još njegovih knjiga!!
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