NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ΓÇó OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! ΓÇó NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV+ A ΓÇ£mind-blowingΓÇ¥ (Entertainment Weekly) speculative thriller about an ordinary man who awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knewΓÇöfrom the author of Upgrade,Recursionand the Wayward Pines trilogy ΓÇ£Are you happy with your life?ΓÇ¥ Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the kidnapper knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurneysurrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man heΓÇÖs never met smiles down at him and saysΓÇ£Welcome backmy friend.ΓÇ¥ In this world heΓÇÖs woken up toJasonΓÇÖs life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. Is it this life or the other thatΓÇÖs the dream? And even if the home he remembers is realhow will Jason make it back to the family he loves? From the bestselling author Blake CrouchDark Matter is a mind-bending thriller about choicespaths not takenand how far weΓÇÖll go to claim the lives we dream of.