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Dark Matter

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This book was gripping, thrilling, very interesting, and a real page-turner. I was up till all hours of the night reading this--I literally couldn't put it down. Garfield Reeves-Stevens' mix of science (physics especially quantum physics), murder, horror, mystery, and fiction are all intertwined to create a wonderfully fantastic story with brilliant characterizations and deep (but not too extravagant) details (some of which go beyond "gruesome"). This is one of the best books I've ever read in any genre. Definitely not for the faint of heart!

A perfect brain-twister, in between modern physics and schizophrenia. Not only the author's writing is delightful, but also the way the plot is deviced and the motives intertwined, one of the most think-inducing aspects in this book being the way it succeeds in combining both a true psychological horror, and the most cold-hearted scientific approach - in the straight line of such masterpieces as Lovecraft's Whisperer in Darkness.

I really do like Stevens' writing...the subjects that he writes about are very interesting as well..

this book is a mixture of quite a few things...physics, murder, madness...some of the book gets a little too involved with the science but it doesn't take away from the overall experience..

the book starts off with some very bizare goings-on..this isn't just your run of the mill murder mystery..

my only problem with the book was that I found it hard to utilize teh suspension of disbelief...the latter half of the book relies HEAVILY on physics and space..and what happens..well, I'm not going to spoil it, but it was definetly way out of left field!

But I do have to say that I enjoyed the book an awful lot. Definetly worth looking into.

I recall reading this little gem some years ago, and it still rates up there with one of the best books that I have ever read. The whole concept of mankind, trying to establish the actual point of "existence", and anti-matter just completely blew me away. Amazing!

This was a very good marriage of science and horror with a villain who really liked to get his hands into his work. The characters were memorable and the plot kept me riveted to the book right up to the satisfying conclusion. I do not want to spill too much about what happens other than to say this book will not disappoint you. If you love horror and science, you will love this book.

The question was never "Whodunit?". It was always "Why?".

"Dark Matter" opens at the Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm with a shockingly gruesome description of a killer dissecting the brain of a young girl while she is still alive, gaily chatting away with his victim as if nothing at all were happening and providing a macabre running commentary on the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox or what we now call quantum entanglement. A bizarre opening to a bizarre novel that treads along the edges of a five-sided polygon bounded by sci-fi, mystery, thriller, fantasy and horror without ever clearly falling into one specific genre!

As the body count begins to climb all over the world, the canny black police detective Kate Duvall investigates and finds herself drawn into the protective web woven around Anthony Cross, the brilliant physicist who we now know is the killer! Charis Neale, Cross's lover and scientific assistant, an American consortium with a seemingly endless source of research funding, two other Nobel Prize winning physicists, and the requisite police corruption and shadowy government involvement all conspire to protect Cross from discovery and allow him to edge closer to the elusive Theory of Everything and the answers to the beginning of the universe.

While the entire novel never really strays too far from its roots in the thriller/horror genre, the ending is much more in the realm of distant left field speculative sci-fi and, believe it or not, could actually be said to be a "happy" ending! With the single overwhelming caveat that at least a middling knowledge of quantum physics and cosmology is assumed (without which much of the story and the ending would be completely meaningless), the horror definitely gets full points and the novel challenges the willing reader's mind!

Not bad at all.

Paul Weiss

I found this book very interesting, with a little bit of

everything: love, murder, a conspiracy to cover up those murders, and a whole lot of physics. Now, I don't know the

difference between subatomic particles and the particles between

one's teeth, so most of the talk went over my head. But, if you're anything like me, you'll be able pick up just enough to

understand what's happening. But that's just the physics part,

the rest is easy enough. It's a real good, so enjoy.

I had a love/hate relationship with this novel. I gleefully cringed through the opening sequence of brain surgery (sans operating room). I enjoyed the descriptions of the maniacally brilliant killer. I even enjoyed the mix of sci fi and fantasy with the horror theme. However, this one eventually lost my interest by bringing in far too many unimportant elements. DARK MATTER just never comes through with a punch. It delivers gore to the max and has a potentially fiendish villain, but it fizzles before it really gets to the point. I was, needless to say, quite disappointed.

One of the cover reviews for this book describes it as "a character portrait of a copletely amoral serial killer to rival Thomas Harris's RED DRAGON..." Do yourself a favor: read RED DRAGON instead; it's beautifully written and amazingly chilling.

A masterful blend of Horror, Science Fiction and science fact. This author goes out of his way to research his subject material, making the premise plausible to the point of scaring the reader into thinking "What if it were true?"

All of the descriptions, reviews, and comments on this page are not for this book! They are for a mystery by someone named "Stevens". For an accurate description of this book, see greatauthorsonline. com This is a great but scary book about a time when a television evangelist becomes President of The United States.

Lincoln Stoddard, evangelical leader of the Christian Universalist Church, has risen to the Presidency of the United States. He immediately proceeds to crush opposition, secular and spiritual, throughout the country and beyond. Reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition, Stoddard sends Emerson Cheevers -- his half-mad executioner -- to eradicate the remaining members of the CU's opposition.

Grant Broadstreet, sole survivor of one of Cheevers' actions, joins the last great hope against the oppressive CU government: the Northern Army, First Tank Command, Colonel Matthew Timmerick, commanding. Together, they attempt a last ditch defense against the vision of God that resides only in Stoddard's twisted mind.

Rodger Olsen

Editor Great Authors Online