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# Recursion: From the Bestselling Author of Dark Matter Comes an Exciting, Twisty Thriller

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'Action-packed, brilliantly unique' – Andy Weir, author of The Martian
A compulsive, mind-bending exploration of memory and what it means to be human, Recursion is a breathtaking thriller from the author of Dark Matter
, Blake Crouch.
At first, it looks like a disease.
An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.
But the force that’s sweeping the world is no pathogen. It’s just the first shockwave, unleashed by a stunning discovery – and what’s in jeopardy is not just our minds.
In New York City, Detective Barry Sutton is closing in on the truth – and in a remote laboratory, neuroscientist Helena Smith is unaware that she alone holds the key to this mystery . . . and the tools for fighting back.
Together, Barry and Helena will have to confront their enemy – before they, and the world, are trapped in a loop of ever-growing chaos.
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Recursion takes mind-twisting premises and embeds them in a deeply emotional story about time and loss and grief and most of all, the glory of the human heart' – Gregg Hurwitz, author of Orphan X
Fans are blown away by Recursion . . .
'Unbelievably good'
'Mind-blowing, brilliant, enthralling and gripping from beginning to end'
'The stakes are colossal, the characters are the perfect propelling forces of the story, and the big reveals are placed at exactly the right moments'
'I couldn't put it down, I had to know what happened next'
'Crouch, an already phenomenal author, just keeps getting better'

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Asin | B07PCTYHPQ |
| Author | Blake Crouch |
| Language | English |
| Listening Length | 10 hours and 47 minutes |
| Program Type | Audiobook |
| Publication Date | 13 Jun. 2019 |
| Publisher | Macmillan |
| Version | Unabridged |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A fantastic sci-fi thriller
*by  on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 25 October 2020*

** spoiler alert **Time travel stories are tricky beasts. So often the author can be tied up in knots by trying to be too clever in their plotting, or simply by using the idea of changing the past as an excuse to propel the story at the expense of internal or character consistency.But when done well, it can give us a doozy of a story, and Crouch manages this magnificently.While he's been on my radar - and my TBR pile - for some time, this is my first of his books, and grabbed me from the get go. The idea of False Memory Syndrome dangled an intriguing thread, immediately making me want to know where this would lead, and the author's prose is as cinematic, fluid and immediate as any top-drawer thriller writer, the kind of writing that mostly disappears as the reader is simply immersed in the tale - but, thankfully, with a deftness of characterisation that is so often missing from these writers.He sets up the parallel tales of cop Barry Sutton, drawn into the suicide of a woman assailed by a double set of memories, and Helena Smith, a neuroscientist driven to find a way to recover memories as a treatment for dementia, and weaves them together in a way I honestly didn't see coming. About a third of the way through threads seem about to wound up before Crouch hits us like a truck coming out of the darkness with the real concept, sending the book spiralling off in recursive loops and increasingly extreme outcomes that could quite easily have felt too much had they not been handled so well.(It's around this switch where I found the only sour note in the whole book; Barry's character reactions just seem completely off, given that he has just remembered is while previous life and both losing and regaining his daughter, his actions and interactions with Helena seem unaffected by this emotional maelstrom. However, as this is just prior to the Big Reveal, I'm happy to put it down to Crouch perhaps concentrating on what is to come.)As well as the plotting and wonderful time travel premise (which is compelling enough for me to suspend my disbelief, even though I find it no more credible than magic or faster-than-light travel), the novel is fascinating due to the way the author writes character and uses the alternative timelines. That he shows Barry's marriage didn't fail because of his daughter's death, how characters are affected by their circumstances - even though Barry and Helena fit perfectly together and cherish the lifetimes they spend together, their is no clumsy hint of their being twin souls that are meant to be and will always find each other no matter what; having found each other, they need to make the effort to ensure they do so in each subsequent timeline, and this is reinforced by the ending that leaves open that, having now found each other so much later in life than previously, there is no guarantee that the people they now are will click in the same way.Another bit of genius is the idea of the "dead timelines", where the alternatives cease to exist except as memories. There's a debate in science fiction that the many universes idea as it pertains to time travel can both be used as a lazy get out of jail free card and can also represent a callous indifference to the fate of others, as explored brilliantly in the TV show Rick and Morty, where realities are discarded with abandon when things go awry. In Recursion, Blake Crouch explicitly foregrounds how going back in time to change things for your own advantage - saving a daughter from a speeding driver, rescuing a failed relationship, focussing on a professional project that you'd allowed yourself to be distracted from - will have repercussions for other people that you cannot even begin to comprehend and, while he could have written a story in which these repercussions remain relatively small scale and personal, I quite like the Roland Emmerich-type extremes to which he takes it.Blake Crouch has written a high-concept scifi thriller that drags you along and leaves you both open-mouthed and thinking. Perhaps it's not In Search of Lost Time or Solaris, but it is a damned-near perfect scifi thriller.Five well deserved stars

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Intriguing Concept with a Few Hiccups
*by  on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 4 December 2025*

Recursion by Blake Crouch is a gripping, mind-bending thriller that keeps you turning pages. The concept of memory and time manipulation is fascinating, and Crouch does a fantastic job of blending science fiction with high-stakes suspense. The pacing is fast, and the story hooks you from the very beginning.My only minor critique is that at times the plot feels a little overstuffed, with multiple threads competing for attention, which can be slightly confusing. Some sections also lean heavily on technical explanations that might slow down casual readers.Despite these small issues, it’s a compelling, thought-provoking read that fans of Dark Matter and sci-fi thrillers will thoroughly enjoy. A strong four-star read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mind-blowing
*by  on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 9 August 2026*

This book was absolutely incredible; easily one of the best I’ve read in my life. It’s fascinating how the story completely mushroom clouds in just 330 pages. Didn’t want it to be over but at the same time was flying through the pages waiting to see what happened. Amazing book and would highly recommend.

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