Materia oscura

Escrito por Blake Crouch

Narrado por Rojo Córdoba

Jason Dessen es secuestrado y despierta atado a una camilla, rodeado de extraños en trajes especiales. “Bienvenido de nuevo”, le dicen. Pero este mundo no es el mismo que él conoce. Su esposa no es la misma. Su hijo no ha nacido. Y Jason no es un profesor de física de la universidad… ¿Es este mundo un sueño? ¿O su vida anterior era un sueño?
Para saber quién es realmente, Jason deberá enfrentarse a las partes más oscuras de sí mismo, mientras lucha contra un enemigo terrible, aparentemente insuperable. Una novela brillante de suspenso y ciencia ficción sobre hasta qué punto buscamos la vida que soñamos.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: BookaVivo
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 13 jul 2021
• ISBN: 9781638115700

Blake Crouch

Blake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. His novels include the New York Times bestseller Dark Matter, and the international bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy, which was adapted into a television series for FOX. Crouch also co-created the TNT show Good Behavior, based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. He lives in Colorado.

Comentarios para Materia oscura

[Giselle Colichon · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

El tema es interesante pero la historia un poco predictiva, por momentos repetitiva.

[alvaro nun · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Great plot. Im waiting for the show now . .

[Flavio Mejia Cabrera · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Excelente libro, aunque la narración un poco floja. Ok ok

[angiestahl-1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Oh, wow. W.O.W. I feel like I just went on an exhilarating ride, wind-whipped and both slightly spent and amped up at the same time.This book is gonzo in the best possible way. It shares traces of DNA with movies like Sliding Doors and Looper and even maybe a tiny bit Cabin in the Woods, but isn't exactly like any of them and is better than all three of them together. Times a million.Wholly original unexpected mashup of genres - speculative romance? Philosophical horror? It defies easy categorization and can be enjoyed surface level as a rollicking and fast-paced suspense ride OR mulled on a deeper level if you let yourself steep in some of the underlying idea currents of the book.One of the best, most enjoyable books I've read in recent memory. Highly recommended.

[Hugo Gómez · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Excelente libro, al principio se me hizo lento, pero valió la pena ver como se desarrolla la historia

[Jeisy Olvera · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Una increíble historia que te atrapa desde el primer capítulo

[gatorhater · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

This is a intriguing science fiction thriller dealing with alternative worlds within a multiverse, leading into different versions of Dr. Jason Dessen's life.

[Juni Ackerman · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Inesperado, insólito, sorprendente. Me dejó un sabor real y ansioso.

[Micropop · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Por momentos parece un capítulo de Rick & Morty, pero este libro me encantó

[velmeran · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I was given a free galley from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is an interesting read that pulls you in within the first chapter. A thought provoking tale of alternate universes and knowing yourself and those who impact your life, we are taken on adventure of mind and body.

[Victor61 · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

Buscaba un libro de ciencia ficción y me encontré con una novela romántica.
La cantidad de veces que dice "Daniela" es irritante.
Mucha descripción, pero se caen las ideas luego de un buen comienzo.
La narración es excesivamente lenta. Sugiero poner el reproductor en 1.2

[A u r o r a · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

La historia es increíble, te atrapa desde un inicio. No es un género que disfrute, pero este ha sido la excepción. El narrador también hace un buen trabajo.

[mantra_1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Dark Matter by Blake CrouchI REALLY enjoyed this book. Grabbed me right from the start, more than anythingI've read recently. Jason, the main character, gets a chance to see what 'mighthave been', although maybe not in the way he would have chosen. Would not have believed that QuantumDecoherence could be blended into a very gripping and interesting novel. Some mystery,a little SciFI, a love story... Overall a very good story with some serious twiston multiple personalities, for lack of a better way to say it, near the end.I'd definitely recommend it.

[Eva Pérez · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Es un gran thriller con una pizca de ciencia, y mucho de introspección sobre "el camino no tomado" las decisiones de la vida y la felicidad. La narración en velocidad 1.2, de otra forma es muy lenta. La voz, excelente.

[Francisco Javier Lara · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Por momentos regular, si te gusta divagar. Podría tener un mejor final!!

[arielfl · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

What a mind bender of a book. Once I started it I could not put it down. I became familiar with Blake Crouch through Wayward Pines and this new book is also SF. A man named Jason Dessen is living a comfortable life with his wife and son when one night after going out for drinks with an old friend he is suddenly and completely yanked out of it. As he fights to get back to the life and family he once knew he is confronted with all of his what if's of the past. Crouch taps into a thought that I have often had, how different your life could have turned out if you had made different choices. You don't have to be a Science Fiction nerd to enjoy Dark Matter. There is something that will resonate with everyone in it. I don't want to say too much more about a book that isn't even being released for a few months yet. The fun of of a Blake Crouch book is getting on for the ride and not knowing where it is going to take you but knowing you won't be disappointed.

[Leviatan · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Muy buen libro. Explora lo desconocido que uno siempre se ha preguntado

[Dora Cobain · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

La temática está interesante solo que el final lo sentí muy forzado, y me dejo más dudas que explicaciones…

[jusi_3 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Great tinkering with time travel

[brianinbuffalo · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

[4.25] Holy multiverse! Crouch’s sci-fi thriller offers exhilarating entertainment while subtly prodding readers to question the choices they’ve made in their lives. Isn’t there a touch of protagonist Jason in all of us as we occasionally ponder the paths we’ve chosen?

My one minor beef: Careening into many diverse worlds at breakneck speed induced a mild case of literary whiplash. But I quibble. “Dark Matter” is both entertaining and thought-provoking.

I watched a recent interview with Crouch when he touched on Everett’s many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. It suggests every thought we have and every choice we make creates a new world. The theory goes on to assert that all of these worlds still exist on a different plateau — and that they are every bit as real as the reality we experience in our “real” lives. Heavy stuff, indeed. Perhaps it’s time for a happy-go-lucky rom-com novel.

[waldhaus1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

The background is that because of quantum uncertainty each choice we make creates a new universe. And in each new universe a different version of us lives on constantly creating new universes. Then the teller of the story becomes a physicist who as one version of himself finds a way to begin visiting those other universes. The visiting is complicated because each time he visits a new universe there is already a version of himself there. Because different choices have been made in each universe each version of the story teller has slightly different dreams, hopes and fears.
The teller isn’t actually the creator of the quantum transporter - instead the creator comes to his universe, kidnaps him sending him back to the creator’s universe.
The rest of the story is about how the story teller finds his way back to the universe and family he left and how he copes with his doubles.
While it is a stretch the author finds a way to help us suspend disbelief.

[Christian Burgos · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

La perfecta introducción a la ciencia ficción especulativa moderna. Un thriller psicológico con bases muy humanistas y conceptos científicos estratégicamente bien explicados. La estructura, tanto como la narrativa (muy cineasta y en primera persona) son de primer nivel. Resulta inevitable no ponerse en la piel de los personajes y hacerse las preguntas sobre las que está fundada esta historia.

[helenlynn-118623 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Dark Matter is the first book I've read by Blake Crouch.
I enjoyed it. I'm off to the library now to pick up Recursion and Upgrade!

[headinherbooks_27 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

If you like Christopher Nolan’s works you will love this book. The plot consists of a scientist/professor who is kidnapped and sent to an alternate universe and does everything he can to get back to his own universe. It’s mind-bending and action-packed. Love the thriller, suspense, sci-fi, and mind-boggling vibes in it. I will absolutely place this in my top 5 books I read this year.

J: “Every moment, every breath, contains a choice. But life is imperfect. We make the wrong choices. So, we end up living in a state of perpetual regret, and is there anything worse? I built something that could actually eradicate regret. Let you find worlds where you made the right choice.”

D: “Life doesn’t work that way. You live with your choices and learn. You don’t cheat the system.”

[mrdee0 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Great scifi that reads like a movie. Loved it.

[mistermelon · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Really fun and gripping book! 4.5 stars rounded down. Would have rounded up if it wasn't for a plot hole (or at least what I perceived as a plot hole) in the last third of the book. Great sci-fi, characters you root for, fast paced narrative. Definitely enjoyed, and definitely recommend.

(And I won't say the plot hole here, because spoilers, but feel free to ask me if you've read the book.. Because I'd love to discuss it and have someone convince me that it wasn't a plot hole. That'd make me enjoy the novel even more.)

[markald · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Up to about 2/3 of way through the book, I had read this like a page turner. Then it became obvious Blake Crouch didn’t have a clue how people like his main character, Jason, actually think and process life. Second, the author completely failed the opportunity to expand the positive creative, just stopping a story line when it had some redeeming value, and instead jumping Jason back into his artificial hell where he acts like a self- and loved one destructive bumbling idiot. The author tells us Jason is so in love with his family he can’t live without them, doesn’t show us. And at the same time has Jason do things that are likely to hurt his family. At this point the story lost all sense of plausible reality. Here’s the issue. Jason, as a physicist MUST be a logical thinking problem solver. There are no non-logical PhD physicists as they self select out from this study. Jason as written is a completely inept problem solver with an entirely irrational mind. He’s more emotional than the worst pre-teen drama tv character. It’s so over the top, it is unbelievable of literally any intelligent human. It’s as if the author lost all creativity, and could only drive the story by mashing the same button on his keyboard and dumbing his character down below humanity. I felt repulsed by the inconsistency. I had to put the book down for a couple days, then I forced myself to read through the next 50 pages. Fortunately, the author refocuses on the story, which ends with some interesting twists. It does not redeem the glaring sludge at the 2/3 mark. Too bad. There are lots of reasons a person finds meaning in life. A rational person could have spent time in the good universes, but eventually found them hollow without their family through his exploration and introspection. And this would have given time to explore more positive creative world building. That hyper intelligent Jason would work through the problem in this fashion is believable, and would be a platform for the author’s creativity and insight into the subtlety of an intelligent mind. So, in all, this is not a bad read. The physics is compelling, and some of that storytelling is excellent, but the main character is not believable and off putting.

[mav1n1libby · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I loved this book. Great speculative fiction, a little sci-fi but still completely understandable. My little brain took a little to comprehend what was going on, but I was definitely here for it. The main character is a science guy who could've had a great career but ended up getting married and having a child. He kind of wondered "what-if" but was really happy in his life. He was on the way home from the bar celebrating a friend's science award when he is attacked and put into the car and brought to an abandoned location and told to take off all his clothes. And the guy is treating him awful. He's for sure thinking he's going to be killed. When all of a sudden, the demeanor changed. And he was given really nice clothes to change into, leather loafters. [SPOILER] The rest of the story gets crazy. He wakes up in a science lab and escapes. Not understanding why everyone is after him. The basis of the story is there are multiple parallel lines and each line is created when a choice is made in your life, meaning there are billions and billions of parallel lines and multiverses where you chose something different and ended up somewhere else. The main character in the life where he chose his career over getting married and having a kid, creates this box where you can't jump around in time, but you can "jump" to alternate parallel lines. Which means if you jump into another multiverse, technically, two of you exist in that universe. The science guy jump into the universe where he had chosne to be married and have a kid and switched universes with him. When the married guy ended up in the science universe, he had no idea who anyone was and what he had created, etc. It then starts a whole thing of him being chased and trying to get back to his wife and kid. Maybe now I need the spoiler - but in the end, he does get back to the universe where they exist. And at this point, so has many other of his counterparts from other universes, so there are hundreds of him running around the city. He's able to get his wife to come get him at the police station and they pick up their son from school and go to a secluded cabin. But their son turned his phone on for a second and all of his other "selves" or at least some, found him. And they were murderous. Not towards the wife and son, but towards him because they wanted that life so bad too. In the end, they're able to get back to "the box" and take the capsules, so they can go to a different universe where the rest won't follow because it was the son who opened up the door so it had his spin on so all the other guys wouldn't know where to follow. Super out there and I was really into it!

[cheryl_in_cc_nv · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

Way over-hyped. Good for ppl who like page-turners, hollywood adventure, but not as well-written or as deeply thought out as I like my modern SF. Good for ppl who like pulp SF? Or genre thrillers?
Glad I read it. But won't recommend, even to hubby who does like both thrillers and SF

[silva_44 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

This book definitely kept me guessing and interested, but I didn't like it as much as the Wayward Pines trilogy. I also did not appreciate all the f-bombs.