{"product_id":"schrodingers-wife-and-other-possibilities-isbn-9781915983183","title":"Schrodinger's Wife (and Other Possibilities)","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe lives of people (mostly women) who help to produce science or who are affected by it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stories in \u003ci\u003eSchrödinger's Wife (and Other Possibilities)\u003c\/i\u003e travel through laboratories, observatories, rockets, hotel rooms, hospitals, out to the Antarctic and into outer space, following the trails of women scientists, technicians, patients, doctors, and spouses in their encounters with some of the most extraordinary aspects of modern science.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these science-inspired tales the nuclear physicist Lise Meitner discovers the secrets of nuclear fission while fleeing from the Nazis. An employee in the underground laboratory CERN refuses to have her own photo taken. 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. The elusive physicist Bruno Pontecorvo theorizes about an equally elusive particle. 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this, her second collection of short stories, Pippa Goldschmidt explores the lives of real and imaginary scientists, focusing on the human emotions and social connections behind the discoveries.\"Despite the lack of the explicitly fantastical the stories in this volume are definitely speculative and, above all, fabulous, in all senses of the word. It is not just that they are neatly constructed and thought provoking but that, above all, they are immensely entertaining. This is by far one of the best collections I’ve read in a long, long while.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Steven French, British Science Fiction Association\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Goldschmidt employs a collage technique, with many of the stories composed of short scenes and images. Her use of form can be delightfully inventive.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Philip Womack, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"This is a collection focused on people and science, frequently based on historical fact, and concerned with how the stories of science have overwritten—or, alternately, underwritten—personal histories.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Octavia Cade, \u003ci\u003eStrange Horizons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Many of the stories mimic the conventions of scientific writing, but [Goldschmidt] never loses sight of the humanity of her characters. Instead, her precise and technical prose works reflexively to interrogate the violence and erasures of mainstream science. Taken collectively, this engrossing collection creates a mosaic of situated perspectives on science that is surely more than the sum of its parts.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Libby O'Neil, \u003ci\u003eFull Stop\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"The ambiguous nature of light and matter is the epicenter of Pippa Goldschmidt’s delightfully quirky new collection. Zigzagging across a century of history, from the first world war to the devastated Anthropocene Earth, these stories subvert the glamorous masculine mythos and hubris of twentieth century physics and twenty-first century Mars exploration. Playfully innovative in structure and voice, they are also a lot of fun to read.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Susan M. Gaines, author of \u003ci\u003eAccidentals\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCarbon Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In her laboratory of words, Pippa Goldschmidt mixes science with stories to create fictions inspired by people and creatures both real and imagined. From the Mars rover to lab mice and the fickle nature of love—and with a particular interest in often brilliant women pushed to the margins and denied a voice—Goldschmidt invites us to expand our minds from what we thought was possible in order to see our world in new ways.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tania Hershman, author of \u003ci\u003eStill Life With Octopus\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSome of Us Glow More Than Others\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ePippa Goldschmidt received the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2012. She has contributed to various radio programmes in the UK and Germany, and has published a number of short stories, poems, and essays in print and online. She regularly reviews books for the BBC \u003ci\u003eSky at Night\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, and writes cultural criticism for \u003ci\u003eArt Review\u003c\/i\u003e (online). In 2016, she was awarded an MRC Suffrage Science award, for services to science writing and communication. Pippa lives in both Scotland and Berlin.","brand":"Goldsmiths Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302285791461,"sku":"NP9781915983183","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781915983183.jpg?v=1767736195","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/schrodingers-wife-and-other-possibilities-isbn-9781915983183","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}