Dark Matter: A Novel

Name: Dark Matter: A Novel
Rating: 4.045219638242894 (2709 reviews)
Author: Blake Crouch
ISBN: 9780451496416

by Blake Crouch

4.0

(2,709 ratings)

340 pages63 editions2016Random House USAISBN 9780451496416

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About this book

Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the kidnapper knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man he’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.” In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. Is it this life or the other that’s the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how will Jason make it back to the family he loves?

Publication Details

Publisher: Random House USA
Published: 2016
Pages: 340
ISBN: 9780451496416
Language: en
Editions: 63

About Blake Crouch

Blake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of the forthcoming novel, Dark Matter, for which he is writing the screenplay for Sony Pictures. His international-bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy was adapted into a television series for FOX, executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan, that was Summer 2015’s #1 show. With Chad Hodge, Crouch also created Good Behavior, the TNT television show starring Michelle Dockery based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. He has written more than a dozen novels that have been translated into over thirty languages and his short fiction has appeared in numerous publications including Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Crouch lives in Colorado with his family.

Community Reviews

PaPaPengu40★★★★★5/6/2026

This is a SciFi thriller dealing with multiverse and its consequences. First half of book was a slow burn and slow read but the second half I could not stop or put it down. I’ll be reading more Blake Crouch in the future.

shaikhly4/12/2026

**Great book**