6/29/2023 0 Comments Blake crouch recursion![]() ![]() KELLY: I should mentioned by way of backdrop, give people just a little bit of a sense of the plot here - one of your central characters is a neuroscientist. And he read my first gangly draft, and then we sat down and started talking about how to make this plausible. I think that I'm a huge science geek even though in university I took as few science classes as possible.ĬROUCH: And I think entertainment can be a real vehicle for explaining and firing up the masses' imagination when it comes to science. I wanted to do as much pure science justice to this high concept as I could. ![]() When I sat down with Blake Crouch, I wanted to know, how much did he sweat getting the science right?ĬROUCH: Lots of day sweats, lots of night sweats. ![]() "Recursion" is a thriller with a dash of sci-fi. KELLY: And he wondered, what if he scaled that idea up from mice to people? In Crouch's new novel "Recursion," people are waking up with two sets of memories - their own memories and an alternate set that feels just as true. And when I read this, I thought, this is my book. The novelist Blake Crouch was searching for an idea for his next book, and he'd hit a wall.īLAKE CROUCH: And then I came across this article about two MIT scientists who were implanting false memories in the brains of mice and actually tricking these poor mice into believing they had experienced a reality that they never experienced. ![]()
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