Dark Matter
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4.2 • 417 Ratings
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Publisher Description
NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV SERIES STARRING JOEL EDGERTON
The thriller of the year from Blake Crouch, author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy
"Brilliant. A book to remember. I think Blake Crouch just invented something new" Lee Child
Are you happy in your life?
Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.
Before he wakes to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.
Before the man he's never met smiles down at him and says, 'Welcome back, my friend.'
In this world he's woken up to, Jason's life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.
Is it this world or the other that's the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could've imagined - one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe.
From the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy, Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human - a relentlessly surprising thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we'll go to claim the lives we dream of.
PRAISE FOR DARK MATTER
"A masterful, truly original work of suspense. Crouch delivers laser-focused prose . . . and a touching, twisted love story that plays out in ways you'll never see coming" Harlen Coben
"It's been a long time since a novel sucked me in and kept me turning pages the way this one did. Exceptional" Andy Weir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian
"It's fast, smart, addictive - and the most creative, head-spinning novel I've read in ages" Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of Gravity
"I dare you to put it down, because I sure couldn't" Justin Cronin, New York Times bestselling author of The Passage Trilogy
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Excellent characterization and well-crafted tension do much to redeem the outlandish plot of this SF thriller from Crouch (the Wayward Pines trilogy). Jason Dessen, a quantum physicist, once had a brilliant research career ahead of him. But after a girlfriend's unexpected pregnancy and the birth of a son, this future was derailed. Now Jason is a professor at a small Chicago college, content with his warm and loving family life until he's abducted into a world in which his quantum many-worlds theory has become a fully realized technology for inter-dimensional transfer. In this world, Jason didn't marry his girlfriend and never had a son. Jason is determined to get back to his family and his own world, but nefarious powers in the alternate reality conspire to stop him from revealing the criminal lengths they have gone to create the world-hopping technology. Crouch makes little attempt to justify the underlying science fiction MacGuffin, but a rousing and heartfelt ending will leave readers cheering.
Customer Reviews
Loved it!
I can’t put down these books by Crouch. Every one has had me hooked from the first chapter. The concepts are wildly imaginative, but also based in theoretical science, topics I’m somewhat familiar with, making the journey and revelations all the more fascinating.
What a trip
This was a brilliant book. Made me question my own existence.
Brilliant
Just read this book in 7 hours with 4 cups of coffee while waiting for a rescheduled flight. Rarely am I so enthralled and energised by a novel, but there was no way I could have put this book down and ended up quite pleased with the flight delay!