This goes on in Dark Matter until the 44% mark, I know because I noted it. Now imagine if Bill Murray couldn't figure out he was repeating the same day over and over again, even given the overwhelming amount of evidence. To avoid spoilers, imagine Groundhog Day. The most grievous sin of this book is the physicist protagonist is so dumb that he should be nowhere without a chaperone. Honestly, just get Where the Hell is Tesla? by Rob Dircks. Is it this world or the other that's the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could've imagined - one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe.įrom the author of the best-selling Wayward Pines trilogy, Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human - a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we'll go to claim the lives we dream of. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. In this world he's woken up to, Jason's life is not the one he knows.

Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.īefore he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.īefore a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, 'Welcome back, my friend.'

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch