Dark Matter

A great way to maximize your reading time is to read faster, but forget about sketchy speed-reading techniques—just start reading more thrillers. As your pulse pounds, you’ll find yourself turning those pages faster and faster to relieve the tension and staying up later and later to get to the end—which, of course, means you’ll need more books to […]

In his latest novel, Dark Matter, Blake Crouch asks us to imagine we’re fish, swimming in a pond. Within our cozy confines, we can swim all day, and in any direction we please; to us, that pond is the whole universe. All we can’t do is get out of the water. Imagine, however, that someone […]

Dark Matter, the latest from Blake Crouch (Wayward Pines), is a heady standalone sci-fi thriller that gets progressively weirder as it goes deeper down and further in. It’s the story of a family man, Jason Dessen, who gets kidnapped by a masked man, asked a bizarre, urgent question (“Are you happy with your life?”), and is thrust […]

Blake Crouch has been writing seriously awesome genre-leaning fiction for a long time, but it was his Wayward Pines trilogy—recently adapted into a TV series—that sealed his reputation as the sort of writer who can be counted on to endlessly surprise his readers. After the ever-escalating insanity of those books, the question was simple: could Crouch […]