Which Jason does, for a really long time, accompanied by a ticking-time-bomb trope of a limited number of vials of SCIENCE which allow him to skip between realities. Jason, of course, is just trying to get back to his own, good life and his own, good reality, but that's tough, you see, because a multiverse filled with infinite worlds means an infinite number of ways to get it wrong. And it's just sitting there waiting for you to devour in one sitting.

'Dark Matter?' It's a whole bag of barbecue chips, man. How angry do you get at fictional characters made of ink on paper when they do ridiculous things that no normal human would do? Are you the sort of person who has been known to throw books across rooms, occasionally damaging framed photographs or houseplants? Because I'm a book-thrower, and if you are, too, that's going to be a concern here. How important is coherence to you? Is it vitally important that every little stitch of a narrative holds tight, or can you handle a little wobble in your plots? So with that in mind, and before we decide (together, just you and me) whether or not Blake Crouch's new book Dark Matter is worth adding to your list, we have to clear a few things up. There are important books and acclaimed books and books you can put down like junk food - like sitting on the couch in your underwear and eating that whole bag of barbecue potato chips because there's no one there to tell you not to.

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