Nelson is broke, exhausted, and still convinced the answer to dark matter may be hiding somewhere between a rotation curve, an unfinished album, and the bills beside his laptop. When he puts on a black-and-gold mask, he becomes mYdiss: louder, stranger, and willing to act at the scale of his impossible ambition.
Then a portal opens in his Michigan basement.
Joined by Big G, the portal keeper Jafar, the uncompromising challenger Mbiu, the emotionally exact artist Ánima, and the Northern Paiute poet Wovoka, mYdiss enters twenty-two alternate realms. Each world holds a scientific requirement the team cannot steal, fake, or bypass-and a society that refuses to become scenery for his quest. Every shortcut has a human cost. Every success removes another excuse. Every song must earn its truth.
Behind the journey, lil'D, a psychedelic Devil's Clown, studies every weakness in the theory and the man behind the mask. By the final realm, mYdiss must survive the strongest criticism of his work, a family life that was never his to claim, and a three-round rap battle that can free the expedition-but can never prove the science.
Dark Matters is a darkly comic literary science-fiction novel about evidence, ambition, authorship, alternate lives, love, fame, and the courage to let truth remain true when it makes you less special.
The completed MSGUA model and ASTER FIFTEEN result are fictional; real-world dark matter remains unsolved.
