Dark Matter Themes

What would you do to reunite with your family? Would you stand up to an evil scientific conglomerate? Would you travel halfway across the multiverse and back? Would you kill an army of parallel uni...

Underneath all the sci-fi multiverse thriller trappings, Dark Matter is all about the feeling of disappointment. On one side of the Dessen marriage, you have Jason, a community college professor wh...

How freaky would it be if every choice you've ever made created an alternate reality? That's the idea at the heart of Dark Matter, a novel that explores quantum theory as you might experience it ou...

Love may make the world go 'round, but what happens when that world is in an infinite number of worlds at the same time? It makes things a tad more complicated. Dark Matter's Jason Dessen is happil...

Sure, any work of fiction takes place in a "version of reality"—but Dark Matter takes this to a whole new level. The quantum level, to be specific. Our hero, Jason Dessen, is a family man whose l...

If you thought that Physics 101 was tough, then just wait until you learn about the insanity known as quantum mechanics. This theory says that the simple act of observing something defines its stat...

Most of the time, when you're reading books that are about the home, you're reading about houses and hometowns and stuff like that, right? Well, Dark Matter takes things way further: this book is a...

How weird would it be to meet a version of yourself from a parallel universe? We don't know if we'd run away screaming or attempt a make-out session. Well, as it happens, Jason Dessen chooses neith...