Lucas Stoffel

Recursion Book Review: What if you could go back and relive a memory — actually return to a pivotal moment in your life and change what happened? A neuroscientist named Helena Smith invents a technology that lets people do exactly that. It's meant to help. To heal. To give people a second chance at the moments that defined them. And then, of course, the consequences start rippling through reality in ways that make Dark Matter look like a warm-up exercise.

Off to Be the Wizard asks one of the best questions in comedy sci-fi: what if a computer programmer discovered that reality is a simulation, found the source code, and immediately used it to give himself wizard powers in medieval England? Martin Banks is that programmer, and he is exactly as irresponsible as that premise suggests.