This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2016, 2017 by Blake Crouch

Reader's Guide copyright © 2017 by Penguin Random House LLC

Excerpt from Recursion copyright © 2019 by Blake Crouch

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Broadway Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. broadwaybooks.com

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Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2016.

Grateful acknowledgment is made for the excerpt from “Burnt Norton” from FOUR QUARTETS by T. S. Eliot. Copyright © 1936 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company; copyright © renewed 1964 by T. S. Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Crouch, Blake, author.

Title: Dark Matter, a novel/ by Blake Crouch.

Description: First edition. | New York: Crown Publishers, [2016]

Identifiers: LCCN 2015040107| ISBN: 9781101904220 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781101904237 (ebook)

Subjects: | GFASD: Science fiction. | Suspense Fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3603.R68 D37 2016 | DDC 813/.6—dc23 LC record

Available at http:lccn.loc.gov/2015040107

ISBN 9781101904244

Ebook ISBN 9781101904237

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Cover design by Christopher Brand and Michael Morris

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