About This Book
Wilson's trilogy is a quantum-mechanical comic novel of almost hallucinogenic ambition. Set across multiple branching parallel universes, it follows an overlapping cast whose identities and histories shift depending on which timeline you're inhabiting. Physics, politics, sexuality, mysticism, and conspiracy theory are fed through Wilson's irreverent intelligence. Where Illuminatus! attacked political paranoia, Schrödinger's Cat attacks epistemological certainty — the conviction that any single version of reality is the true one. The result is chaotic by design, hilarious in stretches, occasionally maddening, and unlike anything else in the literature. Read it alongside GEB for maximum cognitive disruption.
Readers intrigued by Wilson's reality-bending fiction should also explore Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which wrestles with similar questions about the nature of reality through a more conventional narrative framework.