"Schrödinger's Kitten" is a 1988 novelette by George Alec Effinger, which won both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award, as well as the Japanese Seiun Award. It was later expanded into a novel, published in 1992 under the same name.
The story utilizes a form of the many worlds hypothesis, and is named after the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment. It first appeared in Omni, and its original novelette form was also featured in the third volume of The ...
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"Schrödinger's Kitten" is a 1988 novelette by George Alec Effinger, which won both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award, as well as the Japanese Seiun Award. It was later expanded into a novel, published in 1992 under the same name.
The story utilizes a form of the many worlds hypothesis, and is named after the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment. It first appeared in Omni, and its original novelette form was also featured in the third volume of The New Hugo Winners in 1994.
The story follows a middle eastern woman, Jehan Fatima Ashûfi through various realities ranging from one in which she is raped when still a girl, subsequently abandoned by her family and dies alone, to one in which she is saved from execution (which in some realities, she is sentenced to for killing her would-be rapist and being unable to pay the "blood price" to his family) by a foreign tourist, and becomes a physicist and companion to well-known German scientists ranging from Heisenberg to Schrödinger, subsequently...
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