Dark Matter (book review)

It’s difficult to review Blake Crouch’s technology thriller without some spoilers, so fair warning is given here.

If you’ve ever wondered what your life might be like had you chosen a different path, this sci-fi thriller takes that premise to the extreme.

Or if Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken about Two roads diverged in a yellow wood were rewritten to factor in quantum physics and Schrodinger’s cat — it would sound more like “An infinite number of possible combinations of paths diverged through the multiverse…..”

Jason Dressen is a middling professor, who wonders what his life may have been like had he chosen a different route — one where his research took priority over his family life. He is kidnapped, and given a chance to see/live that alternate life, and the rest of the book shows his struggle to survive and find his way home.

I guess, at its core it is a retelling of Homer’s epic The Odyssey? It’s a quick fun read, and I definitely enjoyed it.

Crouch has a new novel coming out in June 2019 — Recursion. Haven’t decided yet if I’ll read it.