RECURSION

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'My son has been erased.'' Those are the last words the woman tells Barry Sutton, before she leaps to her death. Barry begins to investigate her death, only to learn all across the country, people are waking up to lives different from the ones they fell asleep to. Are they suffering from False Memory Syndrome, a mysterious new disease that afflicts people with vivid memories of a life they never lived? Or is something far more sinister? Miles away, neuroscientist Helena Smith is developing a technology that allows us to preserve our most intense memories and relive them. Barry's search for the truth leads him on an impossible, astonishing journey as he discovers that Helena's work has yielded a terrifying gift--the ability not just to preserve memories but to remake them . . . at the risk of destroying what it means to be human. Show more