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Version Control

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Version Control

Written by: Dexter Palmer
Narrated by: January LaVoy
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An NPR, GQ, and Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year
One of The Washington Post’s best science fiction and fantasy books of the year

The acclaimed author of The Dream of Perpetual Motion returns with a compelling novel about the effects of science and technology on our friendships, our love lives, and our sense of self. 

Rebecca Wright has reclaimed her life, finding her way out of her grief and depression following a personal tragedy years ago. She spends her days working in customer support for the internet dating site where she first met her husband. But she has a strange, persistent sense that everything around her is somewhat off-kilter: she constantly feels as if she has walked into a room and forgotten what she intended to do there; on TV, the President seems to be the wrong person in the wrong place; her dreams are full of disquiet. Meanwhile, her husband's decade-long dedication to his invention, the causality violation device (which he would greatly prefer you not call a “time machine”) has effectively stalled his career and made him a laughingstock in the physics community. But he may be closer to success than either of them knows or can possibly imagine.

Version Control is about a possible near future, but it’s also about the way we live now. It’s about smart phones and self-driving cars and what we believe about the people we meet on the Internet. It’s about a couple, Rebecca and Philip, who have experienced a tragedy, and about how they help—and fail to help—each other through it. Emotionally powerful and stunningly visionary, Version Control will alter the way you see your future and your present. Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Science Fiction Time Travel Technology Dream Marriage
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Rebecca is a monster who kills her son.... halfway through and its pretty impossible to listen to

Main Character is the Devil

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ChatGPT recommended this book to me do not make the same mistake. It was the most agonizing book I’ve ever read senseless sentences that had no meaning to the plot in a personal relationship relationships that had nothing to do with anything I can honestly say possibly the worst book. Well, not possibly the worst book I’ve ever read in my life.

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