Reading List

Here are lists of media which relate to Quantum Fiction. The first section is Books, and the second section is Films.

The list contains only things I have read or watched. As more suggestions come in through the COMMENTS section for any blog post, I’ll read or watch those items and review them.

Table One: Books and stories about Quantum Fiction:

AUTHOR	TITLE	PUBLICATION	GENRE	QF ELEMENTS	MY RATING	NOTES
Lafferty, R.A.	Lafferty in Orbit	1991, Broken Mirrors	Unclassifiable (Short stories)	Tribalism, secret universe, character morphing, setting morphing, many others		Used copies of this sell for over $1000 for a good reason. Lafferty was discovered by Damon Knight in the 1960s and published one story in each edition of Orbit. This collection has all of them. If you can read only one story, try “Configuration of the North Shore,” which is available online. This is the story I read as a child which inspired me to write QF.
Lafferty, R.A.	Nine Hundred Grandmothers	1970, Wildside Press	Short Stories	Pocket Universe, Time slips, Reality morphing, others		A good introduction to the author since it can be had more affordably than the rare “Orbit” volume. The stories “Nine Hundred Grandmothers” and “The Six Fingers of Time” are stand-outs.
Roberts, Adam	Yellow Blue Tibia	2010, Gollancz	Science Fiction/QF	Many Universes		Fun to read in places, but QF elements are stale
Shew, Tracy	A/not A: A Writer’s Philosophy to End the Division, 2^nd Ed.	2021, Tracy Shew	Nonfiction: Autobiography, Philosophy	None		Written before I knew what QF was. My readers demanded an explanation of what my “odd” stories meant, so I wrote this book to explain them. Details how I developed A/not A, what the philosophy entails, and practical applications.
Shew, Tracy	Twenty Twelve	2015, Tracy Shew	Short stories	Surrealism, reality shift, plural perception, dreamscape		Several stories are hybrid QF or pure surrealism: “Pillar of Fire,””The Void,” “The Missing Link.”
Strehle, Sausan	Fiction in the Quantum Universe	1992, University of North Carolina Press	Literary Criticism	None		Must-read if you want to understand the first era of QF

Table Two: Films and Shows About Quantum Fiction

TITLE	DIRECTOR	RELEASED	GENRE	QF ELEMENTS	MY RATING	NOTES
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania	Peyton Reed	2023, Marvel Studios	Science Fiction	None		Don’t be fooled: This is NOT a QF film. Goofy and boring in places.
Avengers: Endgame	Anthony Russo, Joe Russo	2019, Marvel Studies	Science Fiction (Superhero)	Time travel; causality loop		The point at which the MCU peaked. There is little QF, unless you believe Bruce Banner.
Coherence	James Ward Byrkit	2013	Science Fiction/Psychological Thriller/QF	Many Universes, meeting oneself from another universe, causality loop, message from another universe		Plausible QF is established by a scientific phenomena (a comet). If you ignore this, the remainder is well-thought-out QF and very creepy. Acting is good.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	Sam Raimi	2022, Marvel Studios	Fantasy	Many Universes, Multiple Forms of MC from each universe		Doesn’t live up to the potential established by Steve Ditko with universe hopping back in the 1960s. Fun to watch if you are into the MCU.
Interstellar	Christopher Nolan	2014, Paramount	Science Fiction	None		Don’t be fooled. This is a science fiction film about time dilation and other relativistic effects. Visually stunning but bloated.
Quantum Leap		97 Episodes, 1989-1992	Science Fiction	Body Swapping, Time Travel		Not a bad show. It is kind of fun to watch Scott Bakula try and pretend he’s a chimpanzee. But besides the title, this has little to do with QF.