{"id":619,"date":"2024-09-17T09:36:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T09:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantum.closelycoded.site\/?page_id=619"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:51:15","slug":"the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/events.cqt.sg\/shorts\/the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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38 stories from 38 writers.<\/p>

This second volume collects winning, shortlisted and honourably mentioned stories from the final three editions of the international Quantum Shorts competitions.<\/p>

In the real world, the effects of quantum physics are most strongly felt at microscopic scales, but quantum physics has inspired the contest writers to approach big themes like love and longing, grief and reunion, and freedom and responsibility. As scientists test quantum concepts such as entanglement and superposition in the lab, writers explore and experiment with them in fiction. The stories delicately probe the bonds between lovers, parents and children, and even between creators and their creations.<\/p>

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37 stories from 32 writers.<\/p>

This book<\/a>\u00a0presents winning and shortlisted stories from past editions of the international Quantum Shorts competition. Inspired by the weird and wonderful world of quantum physics, the shorts range from bold imaginings of a quantum future to contemplations rooted in the everyday. Characters of all sorts live between these pages: lovers beginning their lives together, God playing dice, a mother trying to get her daughter out of bed and to school, an atom having an existential crisis, children and their secret under-the bed confidantes, and, of course, cats. Dive in. Let these stories unleash in your mind a multiverse of ideas.<\/p>

The cover art is designed by Syafiqah<\/a>, a multidisciplinary graphic designer and illustrator based in Singapore. The book is also available for free download on the\u00a0Google Play Store<\/a>,\u00a0Apple Books<\/a>,\u00a0Kobo stores<\/a>, and\u00a0bookfies.com<\/a>.<\/p>

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In the real world, the effects of quantum physics are most strongly felt at microscopic scales, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-619","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Book - Quantum Shorts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Quantum Shorts Vol. 2: Collected Flash Fiction Inspired by Quantum Physics, Quantum Shorts: Collected Flash Fiction Inspired by Quantum Physics\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/events.cqt.sg\/shorts\/the-book\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Book - Quantum Shorts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Quantum Shorts Vol. 2: Collected Flash Fiction Inspired by Quantum Physics, Quantum Shorts: Collected Flash Fiction Inspired by Quantum Physics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/events.cqt.sg\/shorts\/the-book\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Quantum Shorts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-13T06:51:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.cqt.sg\/shorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/pattern_top.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/events.cqt.sg\\\/shorts\\\/the-book\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/events.cqt.sg\\\/shorts\\\/the-book\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Book - 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