Paul

I'd give 10 stars if I could. If you only read one (pop) science book in your life, let it be this. Your probably sleep-deprived brain will thank you very much, and may not be such a scumbag all the time ^^
Matthew has a rare talent of providing scientifically rigorous arguments in a very lucid and logical manner which makes them easy to follow and really illuminating.
The subject is of utmost importance (don't worry, I wasn't brainwashed by this book in believing so but realized this quite some time ago simply due to the abundance of scientific proof) and yet, sadly, still underrated and sleep treated like it's a necessary evil in our oh so productive/efficient/competitive world...completely turning the facts on their head because as Matthew so elegantly lays out, exactly the opposite is the case: we would never be oh so productive and a thousand things more which make Homo Sapiens special, if it weren't for this thing called sleep :)

A special one...inspiring.

Unique premise and fantastic execution. Just hits different than your usual (hard) SciFi.

Though inspired by the work of Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu, two neuroscientists at MIT, who implanted a false memory in the brain of a mouse in 2012, Recursion is more fiction than science. However, its unlikely premise sets up a thrilling and inventive plot with a touching ending.

Unfortunately, less fictional than it used to be.