# Blake Crouch on Reddit (u/BlakeCrouch)

Part of Creators on Reddit, researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-07. Interactive version: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/creators-on-reddit/blake-crouch

Blake Crouch: Author, Dark Matter and Recursion.

- Reddit account: [u/BlakeCrouch](https://www.reddit.com/user/BlakeCrouch/) (Personal account)
- How we know it's theirs: [Their 2015 r/books AMA, posted from this account](https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/3aektu/i_am_blake_crouch_author_of_the_wayward_pines/)
- Where they post, in the records we retrieved: r/books (354), r/television (188), r/Fantasy (8)
- Known activity in the posts we found: 2015 to 2024
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Crouch

## Moments

### u/BlakeCrouch in r/Fantasy, May 9, 2020 · Funny

Replying to a redditor:

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

> 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.

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/ggfvsf/comment/fq0q2ef/ · 7 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/BlakeCrouch in r/books, Aug 16, 2022 · Own mistake

Replying to a redditor:

> 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?

> 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.)
Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/wpd8wf/comment/ikgib86/ · 36 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/BlakeCrouch in r/television, Jun 25, 2024 · Behind the scenes

Replying to a redditor:

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

> 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.

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/1doeu8f/comment/la9vodt/ · 89 points as of Nov 7, 2026