The Memory Index

The Memory Index, Book 1

De: Julian Ray Vaca

Narrado por: Sophia Buller, Tyler Kwiatkowski

Duración: 10 h y 50 m

Resumen del Editor

In this electric speculative YA sci/fi novel, the world treats memories like currency, so dreams can be a complicated business. Perfect for fans of Neal Stephenson and Philip K. Dick.

In an alternative 1987, a disease ravages human memories. There is no cure, only artificial recall. The lucky ones—the recollectors—need the treatment only once a day.

Freya Izquierdo isn’t lucky. The high school senior is a “degen” who needs artificial recall several times a day. Plagued by blinding half-memories that take her to her knees, she’s desperate to remember everything that will help her investigate her father’s violent death. When her sleuthing almost lands her in jail, a shadowy school dean selects her to attend his Foxtail Academy, where five hundred students will trial a new tech said to make artificial recall obsolete.

She’s the only degen on campus. Why was she chosen? Freya is nothing like the other students, not even her new friends Ollie, Chase, and the alluring Fletcher Cohen. Definitely not at all like the students who start to vanish, one by one. And nothing like the mysterious Dean Mendelsohn, who has a bunker deep in the woods behind the school.

Nothing can prepare Freya and her friends for the truth of what that bunker holds. And what kind of memories she’ll have to access to survive it.

“Vaca’s debut is a thrilling and often unsettling examination of the elusive nature of memory and truth. The Memory Index will leave you breathlessly turning pages until its satisfying conclusion.”—Jonathan Evison, New York Times bestselling author of Small World

Get hooked on The Memory Index Duology:

• Book 1: The Memory Index
• Book 2: The Recall Paradox (coming Spring 2023)

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 Julian Ray Vaca (P)2022 Thomas Nelson

Entertaining! On the edge of my seat!

Fresh, thought provoking story that dances wonderfully between nostalgia & a futuristic new world. Can’t wait for the next book!

Not your typical YA SciFi ⚡🔋⚡ this one's charged!

This is like if Christopher Nolan, sporting an 80s mullet was rocking down the PCH in a DeLorean Alpha5 with Tears for Fears blasting while day dreaming about the next YA novel he was going to write. Vaca makes those day dreams a reality with his explosive debut! Wow! It's 90s anime vibes and heady SCI-FI concepts weave into a world full of grounded emotion that Vaca feeds into each character. It burns bright and only gets brighter the further you read. Hold onto your seat. It's a trip!

I.E. Total Recall meets Riverdale. Breakfast Club meets Severance. The Goonies meets The Matrix.

p.s. The sequel is coming soon!!!

Great Storyline!

This was a really great read. I kind of like the fact that the story takes place in an alternate 1980's. It was a very interesting concept to have memories being saves on casset tapes. I can remember how easy it was to break or tear the tape inside. If this really happened, I would have lost so many memories. I really enjoyed the characters and will definitely be reading the sequal.