Editing Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy

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The '''''Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy''''' is a trilogy of novels by [[Robert Anton Wilson]] consisting of ''The Universe Next Door'', ''The Trick Top Hat'', and ''The Homing Pigeons'', each illustrating a different iinterpretation of quantum physics. Wilson is also co-author of ''[[The Illuminatus! Trilogy]]'', and ''Schrödinger's Cat'' is a sequel of sorts, re-using several of the same characters and carrying on many of the themes of the earlier work.

The one-volume edition currently in print is significantly shorter than the original three-volume edition. This is not a difference in print size or removal of redundant "recaps"; it is missing a noticeable amount of material, including many entire chapters.

The name Schrödinger's Cat comes from a famous thought experiment in quantum mechanics. This book series is not to be confused with ''In Search of Schrödinger's Cat'', a popular science book about Introduction to quantum theory. The first book, ''The Universe Next Door'', takes place in different universes in accord with the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics; in the second, ''The Trick Top Hat'', characters are unknowingly connected through quantum non-locality, i.e., having once crossed paths they are joined in quantum entanglement; and the third book, ''The Homing Pigeons'', places characters in an "observer-created universe" in which Consciousness Causes the Collapse of the wavefunction.

Taking place in Unistat, which is the novel's parallel to the United States, the novels have intertwining plots involving a wide array of characters, including:

* Epicene Wildeblood, a.k.a. Mary Margaret Wildeblood, a transsexual woman who throws great parties
* Frank Dashwood, president of Orgasm Research
* [[The Midget|Markoff Chaney]], a prankster
* Hugh Crane, a.k.a. Cagliostro the Great, mystic and magician
* Furbish Lousewart V, author and President of Unistat
* Marvin Gardens, author and cocaine addict
* Eve Hubbard, scientist and alternate President of Unistat
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