Dark Matter - Kirjakasa

352 pages

Published April 29, 2016 by Crown.

ISBN:: 978-1-101-90422-0

(2 reviews)

One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his son was never born; and he's not an ordinary college professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something impossible. Is it this world or the other that's the dream? How can he possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could have imagined--one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe. …

One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his son was never born; and he's not an ordinary college professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something impossible. Is it this world or the other that's the dream? How can he possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could have imagined--one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe. --

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Review of 'Dark Matter' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

This is an excellent novel based on the many-worlds interpretation. While there are a few minor questions in the end, the story hangs together and works fairly well. The style of writing seemed quite like a screenplay, and I could easily see this as a film. I just hope it doesn't star Matt Damon.

The title refers to a characters description of many worlds, and this seemed mostly unnecessary - unless the title is also a description of the events themselves. Regardless, fans of [a:Michio Kaku|18800|Michio Kaku|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/authors/1379758804p2/18800.jpg] and [a:Neil deGrasse Tyson|12855|Neil deGrasse Tyson|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/authors/1423292563p2/12855.jpg] will not find hard science here - though the story is still quite good.

Kalle Kniivilä

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Sept. 11, 2018