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Recursión
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Recursión
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Recursión

Escrito por Blake Crouch

Narrado por Ignacio Casas

Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas

4/5

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Al principio parece un virus. Una epidemia que se extiende de forma incontrolable, enloqueciendo a sus víctimas con recuerdos de una vida que no es la suya. Pero no se trata de un patógeno y las consecuencias no afectan sólo a la mente, sino al propio tejido del tiempo.

En Nueva York, el detective Barry Sutton está investigando este extraño síndrome en un caso que pronto se entrelaza con el trabajo de una brillante neurocientífica convencida de que es la memoria lo que determina la realidad. Pero ¿cómo pueden dos personas investigar el origen de unos recuerdos falsos cuando a su alrededor toda la realidad se está desfragmentando?
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Blake Crouch

Blake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. His novels include the New York Times bestseller Dark Matter, and the international bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy, which was adapted into a television series for FOX. Crouch also co-created the TNT show Good Behavior, based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. He lives in Colorado.

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  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    Nos encantó!!! Nos tuvo picadisimos en todo momento, muy recomendable
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    Hard to find a new twist on a time travel theme. This one's pinned on some recent neurological science and grounded in musings of philosophers of all eras. A worthy read.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    Another masterpiece by an author who can mess with your mind. A story of time warping/changing/travel that is wide in its scope but not trite in any way. Flawlessly executed, a real page turner just like his other novels.

    If you are not to ingrained in your likes this guy is out there and well worth a visit.
  • Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas
    3/5
    The plot makes no sense; even accepting the premise, there's a very large hole. (Crouch realizes this to some extent, but he can't write around it.) The writing is ungrammatical and lazy, but still propulsive. I liked the premise—for me, it was an original twist on time travel—but the resolution is not original, and was very disappointing. Crouch seems to have written himself into a dead end. I can make up my own ending, to replace the last twenty pages.
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    There are two primary voices in Blake Crouch’s most recent speculative fiction novel – NYC policeman Barry Sutton and neuroscientist Helena Smith. The novel opens with Barry attempting to “talk down” a suicidal woman diagnosed with false memory syndrome (FMS) and is unable to live with the memories of a life that is incongruent with her reality.Helena’s education and career has been motivated by a need to seek a cure for her mother’s dementia. She invents the technology, which enables a person at the time of death to transport his or her consciousness back into their bodies shortly before a past “flashbulb” memory creating a new timeline. However, these individuals begin remembering memories from other lives or people close to them can also begin remembering false memories, which can be unbearable.History is replete with technology thought to be a boon for mankind only to reveal its harmful side. For example, atomic energy which can be used to produce low carbon energy and be used in war to annihilate cities. Helena’s technology proves to have similar costs and benefits. In the right hands her invention can save and restore lost memories. However, in the wrong hands, it could be used as a weapon to rewrite history. Eventually, Barry and Helena will join forces to rectify the unforeseen damage her invention has wrought.At times, I found aspects of this book tedious; however, for the most part the plot moves steadily along and is one heck of a thrill ride. The primary protagonists and antagonists are well developed. The frustration that Helena experiences as she fails to rein in the “beast” is heartbreaking. However, the book does resolve itself happily.
  • Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas
    3/5
    This book follows two characters: one is a detective who is investigating a woman who has FMS (failed memory syndrome), a mysterious illness where people suddenly have two conflicting memories of their lives. The other character is a scientist who is trying to build a machine to store memories in the hopes of helping her mother who is suffering with Alzheimer's. An investor gives her the money to build her chair, but then realizes that it basically lets people travel through time and re-live their lives: the reason people suddenly have two memories is that two branching realities converge when they get to the time in their lives when they were sent back to the past. (And yes, like a lot of time travel books, this gets confusing and you almost need to draw a diagram to keep track of what's happening.)Once the premise is established, the book is actually rather predictable: people are messing with the timeline, it's getting more broken, and the main characters have to figure out how to fix it. It was engaging, but not as original as some of Crouch's other books.
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    People have suddenly started falling prey to something called False Memory Syndrome, in which they appear to recall alternate events and lives they never lived. I don't think it's too much of a spoiler to say that the reason for this turns out to be pretty much exactly what you think it is, if you have any experience with science fiction at all, but the details are rather interestingly twisty. Also utterly ridiculous, as nothing about how any of it works makes any sense whatsoever, and the more Crouch tries to explain it "scientifically" the less sense it makes. It's nice and fast-paced, though, with lots of crazy timey-wimey fun, and I give Crouch some points for being willing to follow his premise to some interesting extremes.
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    Classic situation (time travel) with good character development and interesting plot lines.
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    Mind-stretching ideas. Skilful plotting that races along from one impossible crisis to another. And then back again. A finale that wraps everything up, but leaves you wondering. Very enjoyable reading.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past".- George Orwell, 1984Mindboggling, thought-provoking, innovative, convoluted.This is one of those books where I had to sit back and mull on what I just read. Every time I think Blake Crouch has achieved his magnum opus (Dark Matter) he raises the bar another level. Imagine if you will if you could have a "do-over" of your life. The majority of people would jump at the chance but not so fast! It seems like an easy question with a simple answer but it is more complex with a multitude of possible implications that we cannot even comprehend. What would happen if your memories could be replaced by new ones and you could live your life over and over again? Where do the original memories go? How would it affect the people around you and possibly the world at large? Blake Crouch tackles this conundrum beautifully in this masterpiece. Helena Smith is a brilliant neuroscientist who is trying to preserve memories to help people like her mother whose memories have been taken away by Alzheimers. Barry Sutton is a New York City policeman who is dealing with his own regrets of the past and the choices he made. Sutton is called in to try to talk down a woman who is suffering from "False Memory Syndrome" and is threatening suicide. Next to nothing is known about FMS and whether it is contagious or where it came from. What follows is an incredible combination of a time travel/alternate dimension/groundhog day type of story. I found myself pulled in from the beginning and was unable to put the book down. I had to go back and reread certain pages because the people, places, and things literally changed so rapidly. It was an intriguing and not to mention mentally exhausting read but oh so worth it. In short, I loved "Dark Matter" but I love Recursion even more. Definitely, a must-read for SciFi fans who love speculative fiction and others who enjoy reading books that make you think outside the box.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    For the visual media fans, think of this as an Inception-like concept amplified. Nolan wishes he could write this. Mr. Crouch either has the mind of a Shostakovich (said to compose full orchestral scores without sketches and straight from memory) or has a wild road map of loop within loop. I used to program mainframes - dating myself, yes - and was wild myself 40 years ago when recursion finally was realized in compilers. This is a page turner, or, rather as I read this on an electronic device, a page swiper. It kept me engaged. I have Crouch’s “Dark Matter” but set it aside a few pages into it to finish a couple of other books. If it is anything like this, I need to resume it. [Note: I rarely summarize fiction plots, mainly because I think it unfair to the author (there are plenty of people who do for those on the hunt, and there is almost always a teaser blurb.) And I think it unfair to the reader who, like me, dislikes spoilers.] One note, without spoiling, despite five stars, I did not like Crouch’s ending. But I feel confident in saying that at least one other person will. Read it and you can guess who I mean.
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    This is the second book by Blake Crouch that I have read, the first being Dark Matter, which was all right, but I definitely did not love it. It did not make me search out the rest of his books. But this one seemed to be getting so many great reviews that I had to give it a try. Enjoyable? Absolutely. So much so that I’m still sitting here trying to figure out what happened exactly... in a good way. But is this real? Was this book even real? Ugh!!
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    I was one of many who read and loved Dark Matter and so I went into this one with high hopes. For me, it did not disappoint. The premise is that people around the world are experiencing False Memory Syndrome (FMS) and no one knows the cause or cure. They are hit with a wave of “dead” memories in black and white of alternate lives. Barry Sutton is an NYC cop grieving the death of his daughter and breakup of his marriage. Helena is a brilliant scientist who is whisked off to a remote oil rig by billionaire Marcus Slade for a secret project. As the story unfolds there are so many complications and unexpected jaunts that at times I felt like my brain was melting. I loved the twists and the fact that despite being very plot driven, I still cared deeply about the characters and their relationships. Though the story is clearly focused on the crazy world of FMS, it also offers quiet meditations on grief, power, love, and more. I loved it and I know that I’ll reread it with a whole new perspective next time. “And it hits him all over again – the ruinous power of grief.” “She realizes that children are always too young and self-absorbed to really see their parents in the prime of their lives.” “Perhaps memory is fundamental, the thing from which time emerges.” “That’s what it is to be human – the beauty and the pain, each meaningless without the other.”
  • Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas
    3/5
    What if you took the idea of time travel through memory from slaughterhouse 5 and made it into an action detective film. With explosions! Bubblegum and melodrama do not mix well.
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    This was really fast paced, a lightning-quick read. It covered a lot of concepts and ideas, but mostly on a surface level, ultimately being a novel about a relationship and the emotions it evoked than really about time travel.
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    The book is separated in 5 books, and each one tell a chapter that is vastly different in scope than the others. The weakest is probably the last one, but don't get me wrong, it was still strong.All in all this story about going back in time through memories was fun to read and very innovative, I didn't think I would like it as much as I did.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    Helena is a neuroscientist. Motivated by her mother who is dying of Alzeheimer's disease, she creates a device which enables a person to record a memory, then in essence go back in time to relive that memory. However, when the device falls into the wrong hands, its power is abused, creating all sorts of alternate lives and timelines, affecting the lives of millions of people.I can't begin to describe this book and do it justice. Like many people, I read and loved Blake Crouch's previous book, Dark Matter. Naturally, I was excited about his follow-up novel. This has a lot of similar themes.....mind-bending time alterations that challenge my brain to keep up, and often times my mind does not necessarily fully comprehend what's going on. But that's also kind of the fun part. I found this one to slow down and become a little tedious in the middle, but then it picked back up and pulled me back in. Like most books with a time travel or time alteration element, I marvel at how the author can pull it all together into a cohesive story that seemingly makes sense. This one didn't grip me quite as fully as Dark Matter did, but it was close. Can't wait to see what Crouch comes up with next!
  • Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas
    3/5
    Barry is a detective in the NYPD, and he becomes interested in False Memory Syndrome, a sort of quasi-epidemic sweeping the globe wherein people can vividly recall false memories, whole false timelines, in which they live out lives different from their actual ones. Helena is a neuroscientist studying memory in the hopes of saving the memories of Alzheimer's patients before the disease rips them away. This book brings the two of them together for one heck of a ride.This book rocked me to my core. I don't know that I caught all of what happened--things got very logistics-heavy quite quickly--but the general premise of this book was absolutely terrifying to me. Honestly, I don't know if I'll be reading anything else that Crouch writes, since this one was a little too stimulating for me (I read it in one go, in a few hours, and it's unclear how much sleep I'll be getting tonight). I'm at a bit of a loss, though, as to how to rate it, since it was definitely striking and captivating, though I would be hard-pressed to say that I liked it; so I'm going to go with a middling star rating that may be up for revision later (we'll see).
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    Not only well written, but dramatic as well. Strong finish puts it up there in Science fiction.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    I thought Dark Matter was good but this book just blew me away! It gets the science right, its a pulse pounding thriller, and a heart breaking romance.
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    Wow! This was such a unique concept that was executed in a completely entertaining manner. I knew that I wanted to read this book as soon as I saw that it was being published. I was very impressed with Blake Crouch's Dark Matter and I wanted to see if this new book would be as entertaining. Once I really started reading this book, I didn't want to stop. I really had a great time with this one.Helena is a scientist. She has made a chair that she hopes will preserve memories for individuals with Alzheimer's or other ailments that produce problems with memory. Her chair ends up doing something a bit more. This chair has the ability to propel individuals back into their memories. Unfortunately, everyone connected to the events that are changed are left with memories of both timelines. Barry is a New York City police officer. He has been dealing with a lot of cases of False Memory Syndrome while on the job and he decides to look into the phenomena a bit further. He has no idea what is really going on but what he learns shocks him. I found the entire premise of this book to be very well done. It was somewhat complicated and I found myself really trying to figure out how things would work out. I think that the characters' desperation to change events and correct mistakes was perfectly illustrated and I couldn't help but cheer them on. I think that this story really proved how big of an impact even a small change in our lives can make and how important our memories are. I would highly recommend this book to others. This was a very thought-provoking journey filled with fantastic characters and a lot of emotion. I cannot wait to read more from this wonderful author!I received a digital review copy of this book from Crown Publishing via NetGalley.
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    I gave "Dark Matter" 4-1/2 stars because it played with the question about the many ways your life could have been different had you made different decisions along the way. This one is kinda like it, but with no existential questions accompanying it. Hoping to help Alzheimer's patients such as her mother, a scientist invents a method to capture a person's memories and reinsert the person back in time, into that memory, where they can relive their life from that point, and change the things they did wrong. Spoiler: it did not go well.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    A new phenomenon has started throughout the world – False Memory Syndrome. Victims have memories of a whole other life they’ve led and it’s driving many of them completely mad. One of those victims is Ann Voss Peters and she’s sitting on the edge of a high rise building ready to jump. Detective Barry Sutton tries to talk her off of the edge but he isn’t able to save her. Barry understands despair as he lost his 15-year-old daughter, Meghan, in a hit and run accident. Barry begins to look into this False Memory Syndrome and is unwillingly pulled into a life-altering experience.Eleven years before, neuroscientist Helena Smith is working on a memory chair that she hopes will help her mother who has Alzheimer’s as well as others with this disease. When she’s approached by Marcus Slade with an irresistible offer of full funding for her research, she readily accepts. She lives to regret this decision when Slade’s concept of her memory chair differs greatly from hers and she may have to destroy her dream to save the world.You always know that when you pick up a book by Blake Crouch, you’ll be in for a unique experience. This is his best work yet. My fascination with this thrilling story never lagged at any time. This book has a beauty to it that I didn’t expect. This is an in depth study of grief and time and memory and is so much more than a thriller. The love story is an emotional one. Crouch never fails to make his readers look at the world in a whole new way.Most highly recommended.This book was given to me by the publisher in return for an honest review.
  • Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas
    3/5
    Sci fi thriller, fast paced.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    After reading Blake Crouch's excellent thriller "Dark Matter," I wondered how he was going to top it. Well, he did. "Recursion" is a mind-blowing sci-fi thriller that is absolutely as good as "Dark Matter." Although it mines similar territory, it is a unique reading experience all its own. I could not put this book down.New York City cop Barry Sutton investigates people afflicted by False Memory Syndrome (FMS), a mysterious affliction whereby victims suddenly have memories of a life they never lived. Helena Smith is a neuroscientist who spends her entire life trying to find a way for people to preserve memories; she is inspired by her mother, who is suffering from dementia.How Barry and Helena meet and ultimately work together is but one piece of the truth behind FMS. And it begs the question: if you had the chance to do your life over, would you?
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter was one of the most interesting and engrossing recent discoveries I made, so that once I started seeing Recursion mentioned on the blogosphere, I was eager to learn where the author would narratively lead me this time. Much as that earlier book proved to be an enjoyable read, Recursion stands several notches above it, and even though it requires a very intense focus and some suspension of disbelief, it kept me enthralled for the whole journey and indeed deserved the often-misused term of “unputdownable”.I have long debated with myself about how to review this book, because it presents the tough challenge of talking about it without venturing into spoiler territory – and believe me, you don’t want to be spoiled about the twists and surprises of this story. So forgive me if I will end up sounding enigmatic or, worse, unclear about the plot, but this novel is best appreciated when you go into it sight unseen…One of the two main points of view in Recursion is that of Barry Sutton, a troubled New York cop: recently divorced from his wife, he’s burdened with the pain for the death of his teenaged daughter Meghan, who eleven years prior was the victim of a hit-and-run accident. The anguish for the girl’s death proved to be the last blow to an already faltering marriage, and now all Barry has to cling to are his work and the alcohol he consumes in worrisome quantities. As the novel opens he’s been called to assist the patrolmen dealing with an attempted suicide: a woman sitting on the ledge of a tall building wants to end her life because she fell prey to False Memory Syndrome. FMS is an affliction that causes the victims to suddenly get a whole range of memories, described as “grey and flat” but still feeling very real, that point to a very different path to one’s life. The dichotomy between the two sets of memories is cause for such distress, in the afflicted individuals, that they often choose to end their life: Barry is unable to stop the woman from jumping, but the connection with FMS compels him to look deeper into the issue, finding much more than he bargained for.The other player is Helena Smith, a scientist studying the neurological processes of the brain: her goal is to map human memories so that they can be implanted in the brain in case of memory loss. Helena is strongly motivated by her mother’s battle with Alzheimer, and has developed the basis for such a recording process, but funding and time are running out and she despairs of ever being able to fulfill her dream - that is, until billionaire Marcus Slade offers her the chance of turning it into reality. Unfortunately, where money and profit come into play, the “purity” of science suffers, and Helena finds out that her brilliant discovery is being used in a way she would never have predicted.What I feel comfortable in sharing of the plot, at this point, is that Helena’s breakthrough and the spread of FMS are linked and that the unforeseen application of her technology ends up having profound effects on time and reality, with the world headed toward a massive catastrophe that Helena and Barry – once they team up – are deadly set on trying to avert.Recursion is a successful blend of science fiction and thriller, and as such – not unlike Crouch’s Dark Matter – offers the readers a breathless journey with mounting stakes and devastating scenarios ranging from mass suicides to nuclear holocaust, with apparently little space dedicated to character development, which is hardly surprising since it’s more plot-oriented than character driven. And yet, on careful consideration, there is a clearly identifiable focus on human traits as personality and memory, which are viewed as interconnected sides of what makes us what we are: if memory is one of the facets that defines us – and we see this in the progressive loss of self suffered by Alzheimer victims – the altering of our memories, the erasure of the experiences that forge human beings as they live their life, is exposed as the ultimate violation, whose extreme consequences are portrayed with the same dramatic impact of an unstoppable avalanche.Both Helena and Barry are flawed individuals whose actions stem from the need of righting the wrongness in their lives – Helena losing her mother to Alzheimer, Barry feeling the guilt for not protecting her daughter – and for this reason it’s easy to forgive their mistakes, and the way they are doomed to repeat them. The second half of the book sees them desperately trying to correct those mistakes, leading toward some emotionally charged pages that made me forget I was dealing with fictional characters, to care deeply for their success and to feel devastated in observing their failures. Their relationship, and its various iterations in the course of the story (apologies for the obscure reference…) looks like one of the few fixed points in the narrative, and one that even I, despite my wariness for romantic subplots, found unobjectionable.If I have to find a flaw in this novel – and it’s the reason it’s not getting a full rating – is my puzzlement about one of the plot points, an action (again, apologies for the muddy wording) that’s first indicated as impossible, a choice of path that can only end in the death of the performer and does so with the first and only subject who attempts it. Toward the end of the book, however, it’s indicated as the only way to avoid entropy, and I’m still not clear how it works for the main character… Still, it’s a minor nitpick and it certainly did nothing to spoil my overall enjoyment of Recursion, or to lessen my enthusiasm and curiosity in learning that this novel is going to be turned into a TV series soon.
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    Recursion is an entertaining sci fi thriller full of scientific, philosophic and even romantic ideas, but to best understand it, you should be forewarned that the act of crying is the most recursive part of the narrative. To that end, I've assembled all the references to crying as they occur verbatim and chronologically throughout the text.Book OneHe's crying, a thousand miles away. For a moment, they're both quiet, trying to cry without the other knowing, and failing miserably. "I remember crying, his telling me to hold still, and when the hook was finally out, he held my thumb in the freezing water until it went numb." Helena beings to cry. Joe is crying now. Barry thinks he hears a woman also crying in the background, but he isn't sure. He doesn't want to cry in front of this man. He cannot cry out or flail or beg for his life, which he would be more than willing to do if he could only speak. "Why are you crying?" He keeps wiping his eyes, trying not to cry, and she seems simultaneously freaked out and moved. "It's OK if you cry."Book Two"Have you been crying?" It was a long walk here, and yes, for much of it he was crying. Crying on the sidewalk in the middle of the day is no less private than crying in your bedroom in the middle of the night. Her eyes are swollen from crying, her hair is catastrophic, and she's wearing a trench coat over a pair of pajamas, her shoulders dusted with snow.Book ThreeWhen he called her, she broke down crying on the phone, hung up and refused to take his calls. It's just Barry, crying softly across the room. The woman is crying in the bathroom.Book FourJessica is crying. She's crying again, and she can't stop.Book Five"You're crying," Helena says. Someone scream-crying in the distance. They pass an overturned school bus, the yellow turned black, the glass blown out, voices crying from within. "Block it," Helena says, crying. He breaks down crying in the kitchen with joy that Helena came back to him, and she sits on his lap at the small table and kisses his face and runs her fingers through his hair and tells him how sorry she is, promising that she will never leave him again. The Barry on the screen is crying. The smell of dead leaves and the cool bite of autumn in the city, sitting in the Ramble in Central Park, crying after signing his divorce papers. Fifteen years old, getting called in the principal's office where his mom sits on the couch crying, and he knows before they even tell him that something happened to his father. Smiling and crying.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    What if you were not limited to this version of reality?
    That is the big question that Blake Crouch asks in his new book Recursion? Helena Smith has developed a process that allows the user to revisit any memory, step into the reality of that time, and change it. Crouch shows us the various consequences of such a device, on a personal, governmental, and worldwide level.
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    Fun, exciting, suspenseful, and... byzantine.

    I'm still not 100% certain that I've fully wrapped my brain around the intricacies and complexity of the Escher-like structures Crouch builds out of time and memory. Time is raw material -- past present and future existing all at once -- and memory is the stuff that solidifies time and gives it the structure that creates our world.

    Recursion is the story of what happens when a brilliant scientific discovery threatens the structure of time and memory and ties it into a Möbius loop of endlessly-occurring apocalypse. Barry, a New York cop, and Helena, the scientist who is responsible for this hell, are the time-crossed lovers at the heart of their story. Whether fated by the stars or engineered by Helena in order to further her plan to stuff megatons of trouble back into the 5-pound Pandora's box she opened, their initial meeting leads to a time-loop love story more reminiscent of The Terminator than Groundhog Day.

    They are remembering the future, anticipating the past, or suddenly blinded by their many lives coming back at them like a nuclear blast -- both metaphorically and literally. Sudden nosebleeds -- weird at any time because they are so brilliant red and completely out-of-place on unharmed faces -- signify someone's life ending and everyone else's merging with multiple pasts so horrifying that suicide may be the only answer.

    Or else they feel the need to run barefoot through the streets or the Antarctic ice, or a new atomic desert because they believe they can save the life of his little girl who died 11 years ago, or help his wife of 4 lifetimes, or prevent the destruction of the billions who perish every time the unthinkable missiles rain horror all over the world as they always do and always will. Prometheus' pain was his own. In Barry and Helen's world, everyone suffers.

    It is a novel about one hand drawing its own likeness which is simultaneously drawing its own likeness. Saint Augustine asked, "What then is time?" He labored to answer that question, determining that it doesn't exist. 1600 years later, we can still say, "Maybe it's like this..."
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    Note sure I buy the whole memory recall time travel device. But it was fast paced. Lots of reflections on memories. Of course things go from bad to worse.