December 19, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat is out of the box \u2013 we have a new e-book of short stories! The anthology presents 38 quantum-inspired stories from the international Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is now available to download as a free e-book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition ran for six editions, in alternate years since 2013. A first book, published in 2019, collected stories from the first three competitions. This second volume collects winning, shortlisted and honourably mentioned stories from the final three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Centre for Quantum Technologies takes enormous pride in hosting this space for discovery and creativity,\u201d writes Professor Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Latorre at the National University of Singapore, Director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), in the book\u2019s foreword. CQT is the organiser of the Quantum Shorts competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEvery one of the authors in this book has experienced the magic of sheer creation. Quantum is better when minds play with it in all possible variations,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new anthology explores variations on different, imaginative quantum technologies, the ways in which such technologies may shape societies and how people may respond. As the quantum industry develops, these fictional scenarios are a good sandbox, and the book is an invitation to toy with these ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We acknowledge the support of Quantum Shorts\u2019 international partners in the three runs of the flash fiction competition from which this collection is assembled. Thank you to our media partners Scientific American and Nature, and scientific partners the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems; the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies at the University of Otago in New Zealand; the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo in Canada; the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech in the United States; QuTech, a mission-driven research institute of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO); and the United Kingdom National Quantum Technologies Programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The e-book is available for free download platforms such as the Google Play Store<\/a>, bookfies.com<\/a> and the Quantum Shorts website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 19, 2024 Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat is out of the box \u2013 we have a new e-book of short stories! The anthology presents 38 quantum-inspired stories from the international Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition. It is now available to download as a free e-book. The Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition ran for six editions, in alternate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":2920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n