About 90 pages in. His house is different, he’s not married anymore, son doesn’t exist. He somehow has a career life he’s completely unfamiliar with.
Also he’s a top of the line scientist.
He can’t just deduce that he’s obviously in an alternate dimension? Doesn’t cross his mind at all? He already went to the doctor to check for brain damage. Like yeah amnesia is a possibility. But he didn’t suffer any major head trauma.
Like I get that at this point he may doubt his sanity. But he can’t even entertain the idea he’s in an alternate reality? Also why is this a common trope in stories? They completely rule out the seemingly impossible even though it’s blatantly obvious that it’s now possible.
I mean shit, if I go home and my apartment isn’t mine, job isn’t mine, and my gf doesn’t even know me then obviously I’m gonna say I definitely fucked something up.
If I go home and my apartment, job, and girlfriend aren’t mine, I’m absolutely crossing off every realistic possibility before I think I traveled to a fucking alternate dimension lol
I read Dark Matter pretty recently, and from the get-go everything was super predictable. The moment he got into the car, you can pretty much deduct who’s in the backseat. Maybe it was by design and he intended the readers to be able to guess right away.
Regardless, the sciencey stuff in this book are just so boilerplate and played out. A ton of way-too-convenient plot devices. A lot of these moments of “why would he think/do that? Isn’t he supposed to be a genius?”. I forced myself to finish this book halfway through just to see out the ending. I cannot believe it’s a best seller and it is rated so highly. Has to be bots.