![]() ![]() But the power of love is so strong that Dessen is willing to endure a long, strange quest to find his way home and rejoin his family. He finds himself in a disorienting world both similar and different from his "real" life. One day he's abducted by a mysterious stranger, and every assumption he'd had about his life is yanked away. ![]() And, with your science knowledge up to speed, he takes you on an incredibly action-packed and winding journey that doesn't let up for a second.ĭark Matter is the story of Jason Dessen, an intensely devoted family man with a lackluster career. With his clear, crisp prose, you might even grasp enough quantum mechanics theory that you won't ever have to open up Google to fully understand. Crouch makes you feel as smart as a scientist, even though you may remember almost nothing from high school physics. In Dark Matter, Blake Crouch doesn't just build a world: he builds a whole multiverse in which various versions of the world exist simultaneously, with a very singular love story at its core. ![]() In science fiction, world building is key-the best books are the ones in which the author creates a convincing setting, where there are exact rules and ways of behaving that make sense unto itself, no matter how far-fetched the overall concept. ![]()
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