Reality is Much Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Book Review of Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch

I took a chance on this new (for me) author, and I ended up reading the last 130 pages of this book without getting up from my seat. So if you’re looking for a page-turner, you’ve found one. Even if you’re not even that into science fiction, there’s plenty of “thriller” here for you too.

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Alright, so let’s talk about this book. Blake Crouch doesn’t hit you over the head with the science, although you’ll have to get down with the multiverse and alternate realities if you want to get into this one. The basic storyline — minus the spoilers — is that the main character, Jason Dessen, at one point in his life turned down a potentially groundbreaking physics career in order to start a family instead. That’s one version of his life.

But there’s another version of Jason Dessen (enter the multiverse!) who never got married, never had a son — and probably never had any fun at all — and ended up solving the problem of quantum super-positioning, enabling him to travel between alternate realities. One night after a celebration at a bar, the first Jason Dessen is kidnapped at gunpoint (this…