How long does it take to read Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy?
Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson takes about 10 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours
A week or two of reading
First published 1988. 545 pages, about 149,875 words. Written for children.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy is a trilogy of novels by American writer Robert Anton Wilson consisting of The Universe Next Door, The Trick Top Hat, and The Homing Pigeons, each illustrating a different interpretation 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 thought experiment in quantum mechanics. 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 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 Markoff Chaney, a prankster Hugh Crane, a.k.a. Cagliostro the Great, a 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
Subjects: Fantasy, Science fiction, Children's fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
