Dark Matter - A Novel

Zusatztext 49213533 Informationen zum Autor Blake Crouch  is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. His novels include Upgrade, Recursion , Dark Matter , and the Wayward Pines trilogy, which was adapted into a television series for FOX. Crouch also co-created the TNT show Good Behavior , based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. He lives in Colorado. Klappentext A mindbending, relentlessly surprising thriller from the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy. "Are you happy with your life?" Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason'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 physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. 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. 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. Leseprobe I love Thursday nights. They have a feel to them that’s outside of time. It’s our tradition, just the three of us—family night. My son, Charlie, is sitting at the table, drawing on a sketch pad. He’s almost fifteen. The kid grew two inches over the summer, and he’s as tall as I am now. I turn away from the onion I’m julienning, ask, “Can I see?” He holds up the pad, shows me a mountain range that looks like something on another planet. I say, “Love that. Just for fun?”   “Class project. Due tomorrow.” “Then get back to it, Mr. Last Minute.” Standing happy and slightly drunk in my kitchen, I’m unaware that tonight is the end of all of this. The end of everything I know, everything I love. No one tells you it’s all about to change, to be taken away. There’s no proximity alert, no indication that you’re standing on the precipice. And maybe that’s what makes tragedy so tragic. Not just what happens, but how it happens: a sucker punch that comes at you out of nowhere, when you’re least expecting. No time to flinch or brace. The track lights shine on the surface of my wine, and the onion is beginning to sting my eyes. Thelonius Monk spins on the old turntable in the den. There's a richness to the analog recording I can never get enough of, especially the crackle of static between tracks. The den is filled with stacks and stacks of rare vinyl that I keep telling myself I'll get around to organizing one of these days. My wife, Daniela, sits on the kitchen island, swirling her almost­ empty wineglass in one hand and holding her phone in the other. She feels my stare and grins without looking up from the screen. “I know,” she says. “I’m violating the cardinal rule of family night.” “What’s so important?” I ask. She levels her dark, Spanish eyes on mine. “Nothing.” I walk over to her, take the phone gently out of her hand, and set it on the countertop. “You could start the pasta,” I say. “I prefer to watch you cook.” “Yeah?” Quieter: “Turns you on, huh?” “No, it's just more fun to drink and do nothing.”<...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Blake Crouch
• Verlag: Ballantine
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 02.08.2016
• EAN: 9781101904220
• ISBN: 978-1-101-90422-0
• Seiten: 352
• Abmessung: 162 mm x 243 mm x 33 mm
• Serie: Crown Books
• Thema: Belletristik > Science Fiction, Fantasy