{"id":2952,"date":"2023-08-20T09:49:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T08:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2952"},"modified":"2023-08-20T09:49:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T08:49:57","slug":"review-dark-matter-by-blake-crouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-dark-matter-by-blake-crouch\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Blake Crouch seems to make a habit of taking great ideas for science fiction novels, going as far as he can with the idea \u2014 and then going further.  Much further.  So this book, which starts out with quantum physics and multiple universes while telling a good human story about chances missed (a theme also explored in Recursion, which I recently read) \u2014 winds up with a completely bonkers ending.  Still, Crouch writes very well, his characters are likeable and you do care about them, and he\u2019s reinvigorated science fiction, at least for me, giving me the appetite to read more.  So if you\u2019re willing to accept a premise that\u2019s going to go way off the charts, this is a recommended book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Crouch seems to make a habit of taking great ideas for science fiction novels, going as far as he can with the idea \u2014 and then going further. Much further. So this book, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2954,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions\/2954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}