Schrodinger's Wife and Other Possibilities

My second short story collection ‘Schrödinger’s Wife (and other possibilities)’ is published by Goldsmiths Press/Gold SF. As ever, I’m intrigued by the secret lives of scientists and those affected by science, particularly women. The stories are set in the past, present and future, and are in turns realist, surreal and magical. The nuclear physicist Lise Meitner discovers the secrets of nuclear fission while fleeing from the Nazis.The biologist Margaret Bastock must figure our the impact of genes on behavior while coping with post-war expectations of women’s own behavior. Scientists from East and West Germany stationed at opposite sides of Antarctica experience their own fall of the Berlin Wall. In the title story, the quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger’s wife Anny uses his theory to get her revenge on her philandering husband. A scientific theory worries about being discovered by a woman, and a resident in a special institution extrapolates the history of the universe from a piece of toast.