Contemporary Science Fiction and The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Sacrifice and Narrative Coherence
Contemporary Science Fiction and The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Sacrifice and Narrative Coherence
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This book seeks to create a new means of interrogating the direction in which contemporary science fiction is progressing.
In the late 1950s, Hugh Everett III suggested that there is no way to say that there are not as many versions of what we experience as reality as there are particles in the universe. This movement in contemporary science fiction serves as the foreground for the sense of loss and the need for sacrifice to set things 'right' after generations of technological praxis by the nations and communities that have traditionally driven science fiction-the Global North-that have damaged communities throughout the Global South. Colonialism and the drives for spheres of influence in the Cold War are now being met with the realities of such existential threats as global climate change. Narratives about the loss of control over time, reality, and human consciousness demonstrate the on-going ideological crises of faith in institutions like religion, capitalism, and education. It is the grief for lost utopian dreams for the future that drives this interest in Everett's 'Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics' or 'MWI.'
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Table of Contents
About the Author
Introduction
Stubs, Strands, Tracks, and Forks: The Wave Function in Hugh Everett III's “Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics” and Contemporary SF
1. Entangled but Non-Compossible: William Gibson's The Peripheral and Imperialist Play with Past Lives
2. Repeat and Revise: Overwriting Trauma in Dexter Palmer's Version Control
3. Platonic Forms Across the Polycosm: Neal Stephenson's Anathem and Quantum Consciousness
4. Reality on the Quipu: Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland's D.O.D.O. Series and the Strands of Time
Conclusion
Bibliography
Product details
| Published | 02 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 160 |
| ISBN | 9781978768550 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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