The novel “Recursion” by Blake Crouch was published for the first time in 2019.

2018. Detective Barry Sutton intervenes in an attempt to save Ann Voss Peters, a woman suffering from False Memory Syndrome (FMS). Unfortunately, he’s unable to convince her to desist from her suicidal intentions and decides to deepen his knowledge of a syndrome that started affecting many people. This leads him to discover unexpected truths.

2007. Helena Smith is a neuroscientist who is conducting research about memory in the hope of finding a cure for her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s, and for all people in the same condition. In order to achieve the developments she desires, she needs large funding, and the billionaire Marcus Slade offers to pay for her research. This allows Helena to obtain significant developments that, however, go in a very different direction from the one she imagined.