Blake Crouch

Prepare to have your mind blown by Blake Crouch, the American author whose high-concept science fiction thrillers have made him one of the most exciting and original voices in contemporary genre fiction — a writer who takes the most mind-bending ideas from quantum physics, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology and wraps them in propulsive, emotionally gripping narratives that keep readers turning pages at 3am. Crouch’s novels are built around a single, devastating premise — what if you could access parallel universes? What if your memories could be rewritten? What if human evolution could be hacked? — and then follow that premise to its most thrilling and terrifying conclusions with the rigour of a scientist and the heart of a novelist. His breakthrough novel Dark Matter (2016) — in which a physicist is kidnapped and wakes up in a life that isn’t his own — became a global bestseller and is being adapted for television. Recursion (2019) explored the terrifying implications of a technology that can alter human memory. Upgrade (2022) asked what would happen if a man’s DNA were rewritten to make him superhuman. He also wrote the Wayward Pines trilogy, adapted into a television series. Essential reading for fans of sci-fi thrillers, speculative fiction, and stories that make you question everything you think you know about reality.