Quantum Suicide
Quantum suicide themes have been explored in the following works:
- Larry Niven's short story All the Myriad Ways, collected in a collection of the same name (1971)
- Dan Simmons's novel The Hollow Man (1992). Simmons also describes a quantum execution mechanism in his Hyperion Cantos series.
- Greg Egan's novel Quarantine (1992)
- Greg Egan's novel Permutation City (1994), in which one character repeatedly had his mind uploaded and his copy eventually terminated, but found out that he always "ended up" in another world, where his survival was explained by increasingly improbable circumstances.
- Robert Charles Wilson's short story Divided by Infinity (1998)
- Denis Johnson's novel Already Dead (A California Gothic) (1998)
- Jason Shiga's book Meanwhile (2004)
- Greg Bear's short story Schrodinger's Plague found in his book Tangents deals with a doomsday version of this experiment in which instead of a single scientist dying, a deadly virus is released into the populace.
- Michael W. Lucht's short story After Experiment Seven (2012), found in Nature’s Futures section, depicts a series of quantum suicide experiments in a humorous manner.
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