Recursion

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — The Future Hit — NETFLIX
A brand-new paradoxical world from the creator of the legendary Pines trilogy.
A wild endless race through alternative time vectors in the spirit of “Edge of Tomorrow,” with Tom Cruise; “Source Code,” with Jake Gyllenhaal; and “Time Loop,” with Bruce Willis. For the “Netflix” adaptation, Shonda Rhimes—creator of the series “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal,” and “How to Get Away with Murder”—took the project.

2018. It seems to be the beginning of a new unprecedented epidemic. People go mad with memories that aren’t theirs. Detective Barry Sutton investigates a suicide: a woman took her own life out of longing for a husband and son she never had. Where did this false-memory syndrome come from?

2007. Everyone has a right to relive, as if in reality, the first kiss and the birth of a child—those best moments of life. Obsessed with this dream, neuroscientist Helena Smith works tirelessly on a technology that will make it possible. And not only that…

???? year. Memory games, it turns out, are incredibly dangerous. One careless or malicious step—and the world will split at the seams. Barry and Helena learned that from their own horrific experience. They’re not the only ones who understand. But only they are able to prevent catastrophe. All that’s needed is to choose the right memory… catastrophe.
All that’s needed is to choose the right memory…
“An astonishing raid through the back alleys of memory. Crouch’s talent is a perfect weapon to lay hands on the very fabric of time.”

“A unique experience. I just tuned out everything, until I swallowed the last page.”