Dark Matter
A man wakes up in a version of his life where he made the other choice. Every road he did not take is now real.
Every Choice Taken
Blake Crouch's 2016 thriller opens as physicist Jason Dessen is abducted, drugged, and wakes up to find that the life he has been living, a modest academic life with a wife and son, has been replaced by the version in which he chose ambition over family and became the world's most celebrated physicist. Now trapped in the wrong reality, Jason must navigate a quantum multiverse to find his way back to the life that was stolen from him.
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"We are not just our actions. We are also what we have not done. What we might have done.
"Blake Crouch
Crouch wrote Dark Matter in a creative burst after years of writing commercial thrillers, deliberately trying to write the kind of high-concept but emotionally grounded science fiction he loved as a reader. The concept hit him fully formed.
The novel debuted at number three on the New York Times bestseller list and spent several weeks on the list. Apple TV Plus acquired the rights and released a television adaptation in 2024.