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Recursion

by Blake Crouch (2019)

About this book

Neuroscientist Helena Smith invents a device to record and replay human memories to cure Alzheimer's, inadvertently giving world superpowers the ability to rewrite the timeline itself at the cost of global annihilation.

Setting / LocationNew York & DARPA Facilities
Story EraModern to Recursive Timelines
Protagonist / CoreBarry Sutton (Detective) & Helena Smith (Neuroscientist)

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