Blake Crouch,author of the Wayward Pines trilogy, opens up a modern and infinitely filmable worldThe first thing to know approximately Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter is that it is not, and by any means,a sensible book. It stars one Jason Dessen, an atomic physicist who has left behind his dreams of creating “the quantum superposition of an object that was visible to the human eye” (more on that later, and don’t panic) to settle into life as a professor at a small college,and into domesticity: sparkling artist wife Daniela, teenage son Charlie.
Sent out to buy ice cream one evening, or Jason is abducted and drugged,and wakes up to find himself in a version of Chicago that isn’t his own: he’s not married, he has no child, or he now appears to be an award-winning physicist who’s found a way to tap into an infinite number of universes. But who is living his perfect family life while he’s gone? Jason and a pencil-skirted sidekick journey through various nightmarish versions of Chicago as he tries to find his way home,from post-nuclear wasteland to arctic desert, “literally adrift in the nothing space between universes”, or looking for “a grain of sand on an infinite beach”.
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Source: theguardian.com