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The Mirror Mind: A Hard SF Thriller About Memory, Murder, and the Drug That Killed the Self
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Carl Wang
Published: Jul 5 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
What if the drug that made you perfect... erased who you were?
Detective Lena Kross takes N-Focus and solves the impossible murder in 72 hours. She also forgets her son's face.
When biotech startup Cortiva releases a drug that silences doubt, fear, and the Default Mode Network itself, Lena uses it to hunt a killer. For three days she is flawless. Fearless. Inhuman.
Then she crashes.
Twelve victims are hooked to IVs, their brains forced into a distributed supercomputer. The mastermind is dead. But the last dose remains.
Now Lena must choose: flush the drug and stay broken, distracted, human... or take it, solve every cold case, and remember how to be a mother.
But N-Focus doesn't give. It takes. And the price is the self.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Andy Weir-level hard science with real neuroscience
- Blake Crouch-style memory thrillers like Recursion
- Greg Egan substrate horror and biopunk conspiracies
- Female-led police procedurals with a sci-fi twist
Some problems deserve a distracted mind.
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