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Today’s reading is The Fraction She Didn’t Know She Was by Jenni Juvonen.

Jenni Juvonen is a long-time enthusiast of science and literature, and has published short stories in several genres and languages. She is fascinated by possibilities and probabilities, and how they seem to collapse into certainties in our lives.

The quantum concepts in The Fraction She Didn’t Know She Was are the multiverse and probability.

In this story, with regard to the multiverse, what are the other versions of ourselves doing in any particular situation?

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Today’s reading is Ana by Liam Hogan.

Liam Hogan is an Oxford Physics graduate and award-winning London-based writer. His twisted fantasy collection, “Happy Ending Not Guaranteed”, is published by Arachne Press.

The quantum concept in Ana is Many Worlds (Multiverse)

Ana worries that if she doesn’t find a monster under her bed, then another Ana will.

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Today’s reading is Quantopia by Judy Helfrich.

Judy Helfrich was born on the Canadian prairie where long stretches of nothing persisted in at least four dimensions. Her fiction has appeared in Nature and has also been shortlisted in the Quantum Shorts contests.

The quantum concepts in Quantopia are reality, superposition and wavefunction.

Can a quantum computer find your soulmate? Can you be happy with eternal bliss?

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