Blake Crouch was born in 1978 and lives in Colorado. He is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of the novel Dark Matter, for which he is writing the screenplay for Sony Pictures. His international- bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy was adapted into a television series for FOX, which was summer 2015’s #1 show. He has written more than a dozen novels that have been translated into over thirty languages and his short fiction has appeared in numerous publications including Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. In 2019 Dark Matter was published by Sulakauri Publishing. The novel was translated to Georgian by Alexi Syukaev.
DARK MATTER
(excerpt)
“The doors in the corridor are the connections to an infinite array of parallel worlds, right? But what if we’re defining these connections?”
“How?”
“What if it’s like dream-building, where we’re somehow choosing these specific worlds?”
“You’re saying that, out of an infinite number of realities, I intentionally picked this shithole?”
“Not intentionally. Maybe it’s a reflection of what you were feeling at the moment you opened the door.”
She takes the last bite of food and tosses her empty MRE packet into the fire.
I say, “Think about the first world we saw-that ruined Chicago, with the buildings crumbling all around us. What was our emotional state as we walked into that parking garage?”
“Fear. Terror. Despair. Oh my God. Jason.”
“What?”
“Before we opened the door to the hangar and saw the other versions of you and me getting caught, you
had mentioned that very thing happening.”
“Did I?”
“You were talking about the idea of the multiverse, and everything that can happen will happen, and you said that somewhere there was a version of you and me that never made it into the box. Moments later, you opened a door and we watched that exact scenario play out.” I feel the spine-tingling rush of a revelation sweeping over me.