Dark Matter

Dark Matter
Pages: 342
Genres: Sci-Fi / Mystery & Thriller
Published: 2016
“Are you happy with your life?”
Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the kidnapper knocks him unconscious.
Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.
Before a 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 professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.
Is it this life or the other that’s the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how will Jason make it back to the family he loves?
From the bestselling author Blake Crouch, Dark Matter is a mind-bending thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll go to claim the lives we dream of.
Review: I’ve come across this great literary work through the TV series that was based on it. I found it to be highly intriguing and thought-provoking.
The connection with scientific theories and terms, such as Dark Matter (which got its name from it), and the whole narrative being centered around Schrödinger’s cat theory, really piqued my curiosity.
I was amused and amazed by reading the book, and in the end, this made me question our own size as existence, and question the actual possibilities, of existing unknown universes around us created by the paths not taken.
This is the genre of science-fiction that I greatly enjoy perusing.