Dark Matter

Dark Matter

2016 • 340 pages

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15

This book is out of this world, seriously because it set in the multiverse. I finished this book in two sittings because it was never boring or slow.

Jason travels thorough the multiverse in this book, and not through time, something which I've seen way too much of. While picking up this book I was apprehensive if it would give me something new on the parallel universes or the same old different version of the butterfly effect. Glad to say it was something I hadn't read before.

Spoilers:
The protagonist travels to different multiverse trying to find his original world. Although there's a big twist there. Every choice you make branches into a different reality so when you're trying to find your way home, you may come across different versions of you, also trying to find their way home. That was when I knew this book was at it's best, but no it takes it a step further and gets even better.

One thing that really piqued my interest was the way the author refers to certain things. The protagonist is in a lot of situations where he's surrounded by darkness and hears ‘footfalls'. Not footsteps, but footfalls. It felt amazing reading this book. All the little things I had read during my student life, parallel universe, game theory, Prisoner's Dilemma was the high point when I was thinking that this book just made me read something mind bending and amazing.

July 30, 2017