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Blake Crouch

Author, Dark Matter and Recursion

How we know it's theirs

Their 2015 r/books AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 6 posts and 544 comments from u/BlakeCrouch, dated 2015 to 2024, most often in r/books, r/television and r/Fantasy.

Best moment

A redditor wrote in r/Fantasy

On “r/Fantasy Virtual Con: Time Travel Panel”

Do you find time travel stories to be more complex to tell than other spec fic?

u/BlakeCrouch replied

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Yes. Can't speak for the other panelists, but it's an awful genre to write in. Recursion was so brutal, my partner (who's also my editor) made me promise not to ever write a time-travel story again. When you first start envisioning a cool time-travel story, it seems like a good idea. But as you dig down into the rules, you run into paradoxes, blind alleys, and rules that, once you've set them, box you into corners.

More moments

A redditor wrote in r/books

On “My name is Blake Crouch, author of DARK MATTER, RECURSION, SUMMER FROST, the WAYWARD PINES TRILOGY, and the newly-released UPGRADE.”

How much scientific research do you do for some of the conceptually heavy plot points in your books? When do you know that you've got enough to stop explaining in depth, know that now there's enough for the audience to get it and focus on story - telling?

u/BlakeCrouch replied

Like one time I thought I had invented something fancy, I called it a “light microscope.” But it turns out all microscopes are light microscopes and they all basically do what I was inventing it to do…

Excerpt

A redditor wrote in r/television

On “Hi I’m Blake Crouch, creator and executive producer of the Apple TV+ series “Dark Matter”. With the finale just on the horizon, I’m sure you all have a lot of questions. So ask me anything!”

What was the best or most interesting note you received during the script development of Dark Matter?

u/BlakeCrouch replied

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Initially we weren't going to do "the plague scene" which is in the book. Partially becasue we were very concerned about its perception/reception in a post COVID world, but also because we felt that Jason watching his wife die would mess him up too much. We'd never get him out of that funk and get him thinking about how to have his own future (AKA: be tempted to stay with Amanda). But Jennifer Connolly (AKA JCon) advocated hard for it. Yes, its a great scene. But the reason this is the best note is because it forced JBZ (writer/producer Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry) and I to figure out how to solve the problems this scene created. So much of their journey (the hotel, the dance scene, Amanda seeing a version of herself with a kid) all came from us trying to solve the issues Plague World created. JCon was right, and I am forever grateful.