Dark Matter
The compulsive alternate-universe thriller, now on Apple TV+
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4.3 • 474 Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
'Brilliant' – Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series.
'Masterful' – Harlan Coben, author of I Will Find You.
Jason Dessen has been abducted. His life has been stolen. To get it back, he will go on a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could have possibly imagined. Dark Matter is a relentlessly surprising alternate-universe sci-fi thriller from Blake Crouch.
Now a major Apple TV+ series starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly.
'Are you happy in your life?'
Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.
Before he awakes 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.'
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.
In this other life, Jason has created a box. Transport into infinite alternate universes – every possible outcome of his life, one behind each door. In this other life, Jason chose a door. And he stole the life he wanted.
If Jason Dessen wants his life back, he will have to find it among infinite possibilities. And he will have to battle a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe: himself.
'Exceptional' – Andy Weir, author of The Martian.
From the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy, Dark Matter is sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human. Perfect for fans of Stranger Things and Ready Player One.
Readers love Dark Matter:
'My word, what a ride'
'Crouch surprised me again and again'
'OMG. I loved. Inception + Severance + Interstellar = this book'
'One of the most unique and original stories I have read in a long time'
'MIND-BLOWING'
'I couldn't put it down'
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
Back to the Future
Having watched half of the Apple TV program I thought I would read the book! Both very interesting and thought provoking but ad always the book is the best. Would highly recommend if you like Dystopian/ Scfi thrillers
Good twist
Liked how the book got me hooked in from the start I thought the book seemed really predictable with what the twist was but there’s another twist near the end which made it good
Excellent
Brilliant page turner. Sci-fi, dystopian thriller. Expected very little and was pleasantly surprised.
Superb. Gripping. Made me want more. Read it in a week which is unheard of for me.