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24 alternatives to Beaks & Geeks: DARK MATTER author Blake Crouch

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Beaks & Geeks: DARK MATTER author Blake Crouch launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs▲67

   The astounding interconnectedness of the universe

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Matter▲185

   A new magazine built on Medium

   2014 · medium.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Dark Matter▲73

   What if you could have made different choices in life?

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Mayday! Deep Space▲103

   New take on interactive fiction from author of Robopocalypse

   2015 · maydayapps.com · its alternatives →

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   Dark Matter of the Mind▲67

   The Culturally Articulated Unconscious

   2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Dark Beach #1▲56

   A new scifi noir comic

   2016 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Kickstarter Spotlight▲117

   A page for funded creators to tell their story

   2015 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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   Gutshot: Stories▲128

   Isolation and coupling are pushed to their dark edges

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Things A Little Bird Told Me▲65

   Creative secrets from the co-founder of Twitter

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Librify▲76

    Reading with friends

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Writers Who Don't Write Episode 04: Clive Thompson▲52

    Clive Thompson and ambient awareness

    2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Black Hole Focus▲70

    freaking awesome self improvement/motivational book

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Right Sort: a Twitter Fiction ▲53

    Booker Prize nom. author David Mitchell writes for twitter

    2015 · x.com · its alternatives →

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    Madefire▲84

    An immersive comic book reading experience

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Lean Out▲101

    25 stories from the underrepresented in tech

    2015 · orbooks.com · its alternatives →

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    WIRED's Geeks Guide to the Galaxy - 175: David Mitchell▲57

    The Wired podcast with a science fiction great

    2015 · geeksguideshow.com · its alternatives →

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    The Dark Forest▲71

    Part to of the acclaimed Three-Body Problem

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Wikinomics▲59

    How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Waking Up with Sam Harris - The Multiverse & You (& You & You & You…)▲60

    MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark on Math, AI & the Multiverse

    2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

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    BOLD Book▲72

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    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Kern and Burn: Conversations With Design Entrepreneurs▲83

    Candid conversations with 30 leading designers

    2015 · kernandburn.com · its alternatives →

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    WeWrite▲90

    Crowdsourced Storytelling

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    The Three-Body Problem▲63

    A secret military project sends signals into space

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Know Your Audience Podcast - 5: A Journalist's Experience▲62

    Caitlin Kelly, Veteran Journalist On Storytelling

    2016 · getkya.com · its alternatives →

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