Nebula Awards Showcase 2008
“Gene Mirabelli is the author of six novels, plus short stories, poems, and many journalistic pieces. He admits to being at least seventy-six years old. Mirabelli taught in the graduate writing program at the State University of New York at Albany during its heyday, and currently contributes political articles and reviews to an alternative newsweekly with a focus on the arts.
Here’s what he has to say about writing “The Woman in Schrödinger’s Wave Equations.”
E rwin Schrödinger was a remarkabl...y decent man—when the Nazis came to power he chose to leave Europe for England, though if he had stayed he would have been awarded a prestigious university position—but he was a rascal when it came to women. While a young married man, Schrödinger took a holiday in Switzerland and, as Amy says, “For two whole weeks all he did was make love to this woman and write those equations.” A lot is known about Schrödinger, but the woman has eluded every attempt to identify her.
I began the story with the simple idea that the woman, whoever she was, must be somewhere in those equations.MoreLess
Here’s what he has to say about writing “The Woman in Schrödinger’s Wave Equations.”
E rwin Schrödinger was a remarkabl...y decent man—when the Nazis came to power he chose to leave Europe for England, though if he had stayed he would have been awarded a prestigious university position—but he was a rascal when it came to women. While a young married man, Schrödinger took a holiday in Switzerland and, as Amy says, “For two whole weeks all he did was make love to this woman and write those equations.” A lot is known about Schrödinger, but the woman has eluded every attempt to identify her.
I began the story with the simple idea that the woman, whoever she was, must be somewhere in those equations.MoreLess
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