Author: Blake Crouch

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD - SEASON 2 COMING SOON TO APPLE TV+

This 10th anniversary paperback edition of Blake Crouch's "mind-blowing" (Entertainment Weekly) speculative thriller features:

• A new cover design
• Detailed sprayed edges
• Full-color art on inside front & back covers
• A letter from the author
• A Q&A between the author and his editor
• An exclusive peek into the author's personal journal during his writing process

"Are you happy with your life?"

Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.

Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend."

In this world he's woken up to, Jason's 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 physics professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.

Is it this world or the other that's the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could've imagined--one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe.

Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human--a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we'll go to claim the lives we dream of.

Publisher: Penguin Random House
Published: 06/02/2026
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9798217298976

About the Author
Blake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. His novels include Upgrade, Recursion, Dark Matter, and the Wayward Pines trilogy. His Pines trilogy was adapted into a television series for FOX, and he also co-created the TNT show Good Behavior, based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. He currently acts as head writer and showrunner for the hit Apple TV+ adaptation of Dark Matter, starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly. He lives in Colorado.