Thursday, May 7, 2020

Dark Matter

Fiction by Blake Crouch

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At the beginning of this book, we have a physicist named Jason who teaches at a local college and earns a decent living, supporting his wife Daniella and fourteen-year-old son Charlie. Sometimes he wonders what would have happened if he hadn't made the decision years ago to focus on family instead of his career. Would he have become an award-winning scientist like his college roommate? And would Daniella, an aspiring painter when they'd met and now a stay-at-home mother, have become a famous artist if she'd never met Jason and had their son together?

Usually one can never know the answers to questions like these, but in this story, there is the multiverse. In the multiverse, every choice you make creates a different reality, another world running parallel to your own world, in which  the opposite choice plays out. So what if there was a way to access this multiverse, and find the answer to that "what-if" question? As the plot continues. the reader can see all the possibilities and pitfalls of a world where anything is possible.

This was an exciting thriller that gave me a lot to think about.


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