From the author of Recursion and Dark Matter. Booklist says: "Fans of Stephen King, Peter Straub, and F. Paul Wilson will appreciate this genre-bending, completely riveting thrill ride, which mixes suspense, horror, science fiction and dystopian nightmare all rolled up into one unputdownable book."

This fast-moving thriller is showing up on all kinds of best-of-the-year lists (and will soon be making an appearance on What Should I Read Next as a favorite). What The Martian did for space exploration, Dark Matter does for physics, and it works. The publisher calls this "a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll go to claim the lives we dream of."

From the author of Recursion and Dark Matter. From the publisher: "On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman, and child in a remote gold-mining town disappeared, belongings forsaken, meals left to freeze in vacant cabins—and not a single bone was ever found. One hundred sixteen years later, two backcountry guides are hired by a history professor and his journalist daughter to lead them to the abandoned mining town so they can learn what happened. Recently, a similar party had also attempted to explore the town and was never heard from again. Now the area is believed to be haunted. This crew is about to discover, twenty miles from civilization with a blizzard bearing down, that they are not alone, and the past is very much alive."

The new sci-fi thriller from Dark Matter author Crouch is already in Shonda Rhimes’s hands for development for the big and small screen. In the book’s opening, an NYPD police detective is summoned to the 41st floor of a Manhattan highrise to try and talk a woman struggling with a terrifying new condition known as False Memory Syndrome down from the edge. Meanwhile, across the country, a brilliant scientist is hard at work on her passion project, a chair that will shield Alzheimer’s and dementia patients from the worst effects of the disease by reactivating their most important memories. As the detective begins to trace the line from False Memory Syndrome to the scientist—and the sinister motivations driving the project—the stakes for not just the parties involved, but the entire world, grow ever higher. Part save-the-world thriller, part police procedural, part love story, and above all, a real brain-bender.

An ordinary man gets an unwelcome upgrade to superhuman status in Crouch’s latest techno-thriller. Logan Ramsay paid his debt to society for his role in the Great Starvation, a global catastrophe caused by his renegade scientist mother. Now, years later, the world is a mess. He dislikes serving the Gene Protection Agency, but his adored wife and daughter make it worth it. But on a routine raid for the GPA, Logan contracts a virus designed to slowly turn him superhuman. He soon realizes another terrifying catastrophe is looming, one with devastating connections to his past, and that he’s uniquely qualified to intervene before it’s too late—even though the cost is unbearable. An engrossing and cinematic blend of hard science and thrilling action, and a thoughtful and ultimately hopeful exploration of what makes us human—and what we stand to lose if we don’t get our relationship with our vast technological power right. For fans of Crouch’s Recursion and Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary.