We are walking, talking collections of memories. Every experience we have is in the past. That really awkward wave I gave to someone who was decidedly not waving at me? In the past. The time I called my teacher “mom” in front of my first-grade class? Past. Even the most present-feeling moments—the delicious explosion of…
This post originally appeared on Tor.com. The Chicago skyline may as well be threaded into the double helix of my DNA. I’ve got the city’s iconic flag tattooed on my forearm. I still call its tallest skyscraper “the Sears Tower” because it feels right. On the first days of summer-esque weather, I bike along the Lake Shore Path…
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What would it look like if humans could reach their full potential as a species? The action-packed 2011 film Limitless asked the question, and Bradley Cooper showed us a man using almost 100% of his brain to full effect. Now, sci-fi author Blake Crouch offers a tweaked version of that concept with Upgrade. After Logan…
Are you happy with your life? Have your choices led you down the right path? How can you ever know what the right path is? Is there some alternate version of you living a life you could only dream of somewhere in the multiverse? In Dark Matter, Blake Crouch packages these questions in a psychological…
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