Unfit Magazine: Vol. 1 - Softcover

Featuring: David Brin, Robert Silverberg, Jerry Oltion, David R. Grigg,LJ Cohen, Emily Devenport, Eric Del Carlo, Joe Taylor, and Bruce Golden.

This is a magazine about quantum fiction. As we go down the rabbit hole, the possiblities are unlimited.

In Schrodinger's classic thought-experiment, a cat may besimultaneously alive and dead due to quantum indeterminacy. We won'tknow until we open the box and take a look. It's only when we observethe result of the experiment that reality collapses into onepossibility, one where the cat is alive or one where the cat is dead.

In David Brin's fantastic story "The River of Time" scientists arecoping with co-existing streams of time as some of them move faster andsome slower. It says: "A number of physicists, who thought they'dfigured out what was going on, went mad, committed suicide, or quietlychanged professions." And then reality continues to twist: "I havecontemplated the possibility that the Universe at one time truly didcircle around the Earth...". And later, much of traditional science isthrown out: "Naturally, we had to begin a total rewrite of physicallaw."

Robert Silverberg brings us another future in his classic story "ToSee the Invisible Man". Is this is a stretch of science or a possiblereality we may one day encounter?

In Eric Del Carlo's story "Sexbot's Lament" a robot is confused about reality.

In LJ Cohen's story "Persistence of Memory" we find a man struggling with different tracks of memory, wondering who his wife really is.

In Jerry Oltion's "In the Garden, a Late Flower Blooms" the fantasyuniverse takes over as a woman tries to find her missing husband.

David R. Grigg's story "Ever After" gives us more exploration of the quantum possibilities as we go deeper in to the realms of speculation.One character says: "All that quantum stuff, I'd never heard about itbefore. But you said that your wiz... your scientists, they believe that there are an endless number of worlds, is that right?"

Joe Taylor's "Moon Trees, a Gentle Ontology" plays with realityagain, convincing us with argument that the unreal is real: "Theexistence of trees on the moon, hitherto unsuspected, is now a foregoneconclusion. How do I know this? Because of my dream."

In Emily Devenport's "Alternate Universe Ernies" at the outset wefind: "I've seen this idea - maybe on one of my social media sites? -that sometimes our dreams aren't just flights of fancy or the randomfiring of synapses as we pass from one brain state to the next.Sometimes they're glimpses into alternate universes."

Lastly, we come to Bruce Golden's "Iron Man" in which a hero isfighting for freedom against a society that has grown him in a lab.

You have officially entered the unfit universe. Now, all you need to know is this: is the cat really dead or alive? How will realitycollapse? Hold on, because here we go.