NOTE: All citations in this Study Guide refer to the Kindle version of Dark Matter, published July, 26 2016.If you had a chance to go back and change a decision in your life, would you do it? What might happen if you did? These are the questions author Blake Crouch presents in his science-fiction novel Dark Matter.Years before, Jason Desson decided to focus his life on family when he learned his girlfriend was pregnant. Though he wonders what his life might have been like if he had been able to continue his research into superposition, Jason does not regret his decision. One day, however, he is forced to face what that life might have been like when he is kidnapped by a strange man who asks if he is happy with his life.Jason left his family to visit an old college friend even though it was their traditional family night. Ryan Holder was awarded the Pavia Prize for his work in science.
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During his conversation with Ryan, Jason gets the sense that Ryan is angry with him for concentrating on his family instead of on his career. Ryan accuses Jason of giving up. Jason leaves the bar in anger.On his way home, Jason is kidnapped by a strange man wearing a geisha mask who sends Jason to a version of reality where Jason is a renowned scientist.
Jason has created a way for people to travel through the multiverse but he remembers none of it. The people for whom Jason works have just discovered that something is very wrong with their scientist when Amanda Lucas, another worker from Velocity Laboratories, helps Jason to escape death at their hands when she sneaks him into the box. Together, Jason and Amanda begin exploring the variety of universes, trying to get Jason back to the reality from which he came.After Jason visits several universes in his search for his real home, he finally arrives in the Chicago he remembers. Unfortunately, several other Jasons, who also believe they are searching for their real lives, have also shown up in this same Chicago.
Jason must prove to Daniela and Charlie that he is the real Jason while avoiding the other Jasons who are trying to kill him in their attempt to stake their claim on Daniela.This section contains 388 words(approx. 1 page at 400 words per page).
From the author of the bestselling 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.
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Contents.Plot introduction In London in 1937, 28-year-old Jack Miller is stuck in a dead-end job and jumps at the chance to be a wireless operator on a year-long Arctic expedition to Gruhuken on the northeast coast of, though he has reservations about the class divide separating him from the other, Oxford University educated, members of the team. Bad luck seems to dog the expedition and when they arrive at for the last leg of their journey, they are warned to choose another destination as their base, but the vague rumours about Gruhuken fail to dissuade them.Critical reception Eric Brown of described the book as 'a spellbinding read' and 'the kind of subtly unsettling, understated ghost story MR James might have written had he visited the Arctic.' Dark Matter was nominated for a for best novel.Paver includes a number of references to the author. Firstly, the Stevenson screen is an instrument designed. Secondly, the character Gus Balfour's namesake comes from Robert Louis Stevenson's mother's maiden name; Balfour. This name is also shared by Stevenson's protagonist of his novel.References.
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