Recursion (2019) Blake Crouch

Recursion (2019) Blake Crouch

Check out Dark Matter,  a terrific book about multiple universes.   Recursionis another great read from Crouch that explores time travel.  Not the typical simplistic plot where the hero(ine) solves their high school angst.  Here the whole world predictably goes crazy when more and more people learn how to travel back in time and change history.  

Helena Smith accidently designs the device that allows time travel to happen, but there are complications. People remember their previous lives. Oops.  Barry Sutton gets involved as a detective investigating one of the many people who commit suicide when they begin remembering previous lives. These two team up to try and solve this mess.   Blake Crouch takes things to the natural extremes and somehow winds it up again. More Please!

Containment (2010) Christian Cantrell

Containment(2010) Christian Cantrell

Arik awakes from a coma to face a puzzle that he had set for himself.  Solving it will reveal what he was made to forget about their Venus Colony that will rock their world.  He was taught as a child that the Earth had survived many challenges to become a vibrant space-faring community that had started a colony on Venus as their first step to the cosmos.   Not likely!  

A great story with a nice twist.  Arik is nicely developed but none of the other characters are.  Hopefully in future books of this series we can get to know others.  The idea of the “homeless”  is very interesting and lends itself to more explanation.  It has a zombie sense about it.  

Book Review: Exodus (2017) Alex Lamb

Exodus (2017)  Alex Lamb 

Will Kono-Monet  versus Superior Nada (Sounds like a nightmare Catholic Nun).  Or is it Mark Ruiz and Ann Ludec versus the Photurians (The Borg).   Wait maybe all of the above versus the Transcended.  Be prepared for all of the above.  At the end of Nemesis Will becomes a captive of Snake Pit by the Transcended.   In Exodus it turns out Snake Pit has become “Will World”  with many variants of Will and a meta expression named “Balance” that polices the rest.  Meanwhile, Mark, Ann, and Ira set off with a few expendables to reach Snake Pit and Will through the back door and at the same time lead the Photorian Fleet into dead space.  Oh and they just happen to “find” Rachel cryo-preserved after 40 years.  They did not count on Superior Nada -  a semi-independent Phot who eventually blends the Photorian psyche with that of Will World to form her own collective of Nada clones. 

What kind of deal can Will and / or Mark work out with the Transcended to stop Nada from taking over everyone?   Spoiler Alert -  How can all of the main characters survive in this incredibly hostile galaxy?  Maybe you like fairytale endings but come on…

A nice wrap-up of a very good Sci Fi trilogy.  Alex Lamb does a great job of bringing the characters to life while describing the battle scenes and the virtual worlds with vivid detail.  I’ll take another please.