What do you think?
Rate this book
Schrodinger's Clock
Anyone who has read John R. Little's work knows he is fascinated by 'time.' In that tradition, he has delivered a mind-bending story of time-travel, and what love does to it.
23 pages, Chapbook
Published January 1, 2016
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
February 5, 2017
The premise of this beautifully produced chapbook by John R. Little titled "Schrodinger's Clock" concerns the working of time. Is time but a state of mind? and can the mind then control time?
A newly married couple are stuck in a quandary. He is obsessed in mathematically discovering just how time works. She is deeply and passionately in love with him regardless of his obsession.
What if he was able to travel time exponentially. What if she could not.
John R. Little explores the strains and stresses of such a relationship as two separate time streams progress down their course.
A nice read with fodder for thought, beautifully produced.
This chapbook is copy 51 of 150 numbered copies and arrives in a nicely illustrated envelope.
A newly married couple are stuck in a quandary. He is obsessed in mathematically discovering just how time works. She is deeply and passionately in love with him regardless of his obsession.
What if he was able to travel time exponentially. What if she could not.
John R. Little explores the strains and stresses of such a relationship as two separate time streams progress down their course.
A nice read with fodder for thought, beautifully produced.
This chapbook is copy 51 of 150 numbered copies and arrives in a nicely illustrated envelope.
December 9, 2016
If you've never ordered a chapbook from White Noise Press, you are missing out on a beautiful book. Every detail, right down to the envelope the book comes in, is extremely detailed. This is my third from them, and it won't be my last.
Anyway, as soon as I saw that they were releasing a John R. Little story, I immediately pre-ordered it. And I am very glad I did.
Every once in a while, you read a story that makes you have to stop, pause, and think about what you just read. That's the sign of a great story; and Schrodinger's Clock is that type of story. In only 23 pages, John manages to weave a tale of true love, time travel, heartbreak, and loss - in only a way John can.
If you can find a copy of this, snatch it up. From opening the envelope, to closing the back cover when you finish reading it, you know you have something very special in your hands.
Anyway, as soon as I saw that they were releasing a John R. Little story, I immediately pre-ordered it. And I am very glad I did.
Every once in a while, you read a story that makes you have to stop, pause, and think about what you just read. That's the sign of a great story; and Schrodinger's Clock is that type of story. In only 23 pages, John manages to weave a tale of true love, time travel, heartbreak, and loss - in only a way John can.
If you can find a copy of this, snatch it up. From opening the envelope, to closing the back cover when you finish reading it, you know you have something very special in your hands.
December 25, 2016
Most excellent.
February 4, 2019
Schrodinger’s Clock is a story about relationships and quantum mechanics. Quite an interesting mashup! Quantum mechanics is a broad field of science that only a tiny fraction of the world’s population can even begin to understand, so the story boils it down to the Schrodinger’s Cat paradox.
There is a cat in a box containing a vial of poison gas. A process is put in place providing a 50/50 chance the gas will be released and kill the cat. According to quantum mechanics, both outcomes occur simultaneously, so the cat is both dead and alive at the same time. However, once the box is opened and someone observes the cat, a choice happens, and the cat will either be dead or alive.
This story is told in the first-person by the girlfriend of a scientist obsessed with the nature of time. So, instead of a cat we have the scientist; and instead of poison gas we have time. The scientist discovers that time behaves like everything else in quantum mechanics, meaning that it only exists if it is observed (which we all do without even thinking about it). So, what happens if the scientist figures out a way to not observe time?
In Schrodinger’s Clock, not observing time equates to a form of time travel reminiscent of Joe Haldeman’s The Accidental Time Machine. The effect it has on the couple’s relationship is devastating. The question of where the scientist actually is during his time jumps, while the rest of us are slogging our way through it, adds a small flicker of hope that those of faith will identify with. Provocative, heady concepts indeed.
There is a cat in a box containing a vial of poison gas. A process is put in place providing a 50/50 chance the gas will be released and kill the cat. According to quantum mechanics, both outcomes occur simultaneously, so the cat is both dead and alive at the same time. However, once the box is opened and someone observes the cat, a choice happens, and the cat will either be dead or alive.
This story is told in the first-person by the girlfriend of a scientist obsessed with the nature of time. So, instead of a cat we have the scientist; and instead of poison gas we have time. The scientist discovers that time behaves like everything else in quantum mechanics, meaning that it only exists if it is observed (which we all do without even thinking about it). So, what happens if the scientist figures out a way to not observe time?
In Schrodinger’s Clock, not observing time equates to a form of time travel reminiscent of Joe Haldeman’s The Accidental Time Machine. The effect it has on the couple’s relationship is devastating. The question of where the scientist actually is during his time jumps, while the rest of us are slogging our way through it, adds a small flicker of hope that those of faith will identify with. Provocative, heady concepts indeed.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews