Finished Fr 10/28/16
This is a library book that was recommended to me by a guy that works out at FitClub West. He has some connection to the presidential library, and he told me that at one time he was available for private showings of all the Lincoln sites in town- for one thousand dollars a day!!
This novel is really beyond classification, but is marked SciFi, yet it would work just as well for people who hate science fiction.
SCHRODINGER'S CAT- A cat is placed in a sealed box with a nuclear device (I guess any lethal substance would work) that has a fifty percent chance of activating. Until the box is opened and the status of the cat is verified, it is possible that the cat could be alive and dead simultaneously.
Jason Dessen lives in a Logan Square, Chicago neighborhood with his wife, Danielle, and son, Charlie. He is a professor of physics at a small college and his wife is a housewife. She had abandoned a stellar career as an artist and he was on track to become an internationally known, groundbreaking physicist. Fifteen years earlier, when they learned that Danielle was pregnant, Jason and Danielle decided not to follow their dreams, but to have an ordinary family life. This is the Schrodinger's Cat fulcrum for the novel. Basically, Jason 1 returns from the reality where he has become a world famous physicist and tries to recapture what it might be like if he had not taken this path. Jason 2, the protagonist of the novel, is pitted against his 'alter-self' and fights to keep Danielle and his son, Charlie. By the last part of the novel, he is at war with an infinite number of these 'selves'.
I haven't read anything this fast-paced and thrilling since GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn.
A very easy read and it's a pulse-pounding, thought provoking thriller from start to finish.
It really makes you appreciate the vastness of infinity. The novel demonstrates how each and every action by an individual implicates an infinite array of other possible actions and outcomes.
Although Jason 2 is the hero of the book, doesn't Jason 1, who is portrayed as the villain, also have a definite right to his reality. Is it not just as 'heroic' to try and recapture a past that might have been?
Indispensable link to Youtube video where the author explains the book-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6RZ_WJcZD0
Link to amazon books-
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Matter-Novel-Blake-Crouch-ebook/dp/B0180T0IUY
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