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Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch

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Show Notes

Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter is like a sci-fi thriller version of Sliding Doors if you needed a basic understanding of quantum mechanics to watch Sliding Doors. The novel asks “what if in a different timeline there’s a version of you that didn’t have a kid, and instead became a famous scientist?”, and “what if you got in a big fight with all the other versions of you?”

Pagenerd Sarah read this book when she was deciding whether to have a kid, but she won’t tell us how many other Sarahs she defeated in single combat. Read along with us and see if you end up as a parent, or whether you decide to try fighting your evil twin from another universe!

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