SuitabookMemory and identity
Doctors repeatedly erase cadets’ memories, while Lizzy retains her own and other people’s memories, including private thoughts and pasts.
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Ryan Galloway - Author
A tense, idea-led science-fiction mystery about memory and trust, with a determined young protagonist, a detailed Mars setting and steadily revealed secrets. Its strongest appeal is likely the combination of speculative concepts and interpersonal uncertainty.
"Inside the gleaming domes of Mars Colony One, seventeen-year-old Lizzy Engram and her fellow cadets work to make the Red Planet habitable. And every Sunday night, the doctors erase their memories. Week by week the procedure is carried out. Until one morning Lizzy wakes with all of the missing memories inside her head. And not just her own, but the memories of every cadet on the planet--from the boy who falls in love with her every week, to the girl who wants to ruin her life, to the cadets who have simply disappeared. Now ... Lizzy has six days to figure out what the doctors are hiding--and why--or she'll lose more than her memories."--
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA tense, idea-led science-fiction mystery about memory and trust, with a determined young protagonist, a detailed Mars setting and steadily revealed secrets. Its strongest appeal is likely the combination of speculative concepts and interpersonal uncertainty.
Doctors repeatedly erase cadets’ memories, while Lizzy retains her own and other people’s memories, including private thoughts and pasts.
Lizzy tries to persuade friends while hiding information herself, as she investigates what the colony’s doctors are concealing.
Teenage cadets work together inside Mars Colony One’s biomes to make the planet habitable, while Lizzy must rely on others during the investigation.
Expect sustained suspense around repeated memory loss, hidden information and cadets who have disappeared.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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