Dark Matter: A Novel

“Are you happy with your life?”
 
Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.
 
Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.
 
Before a man Jason’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.
 
Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human—a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll go to claim the lives we dream of.

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368 pages

Average rating: 7.86

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Community Reviews

ajhughes19
Nov 13, 2022
8/10 stars
This book is an unexpected and exciting adventure through time and space. It provokes intrigue and curiosity about how worlds can be different with just one small change as well as how people become different humans with completely different personalities with just one different decision. The story is enticing all the way through and you simply want more when it's finished.
Corvus_Libri
Sep 18, 2023
8/10 stars
Solidly good book, gives me midnight library vibes with a giant sci-fi star trek level fuckery that staves off the depression and tears giving it more of a philosophical ethics feel than existential.
I don't understand 5-D thinking though, I understood up until the 4-D but that was enough to really enjoy it!
Pavlinas
Sep 10, 2023
10/10 stars
Incredible storyline about alternative universe! This book will stick with you. It's amazing!
yo.cheyyy
Jul 25, 2023
10/10 stars
Went through the book going "omg what's going to happen next?!"
kdesousa93
May 20, 2023
8/10 stars
Tumbles you into a fever dream of time travel that at points makes you question what reality truly is.

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