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'''''Death and What Comes Next''''' was originally written for the game website "Timehunt" and is available in [http://www.lspace.org/books/index.html the L-Space Web]. | '''''Death and What Comes Next''''' was originally written for the game website "Timehunt" and is available in [http://www.lspace.org/books/index.html the L-Space Web]. | ||
== Annotations == | |||
* Vimes is asked a similar question about his actions in alternate time lines in {{NW}}. | |||
* The joke about ape language being a bad fit for quantum ideas reappears in both {{NW}} and {{SOD3}}. | |||
[[Category:Short Stories]] | [[Category:Short Stories|Death and What Comes Next]] | ||
Latest revision as of 01:55, 8 July 2024
A dying philosopher hopes to thwart Death by invoking the uncertainty principle and claiming that he may well not be dead in many of the possible worlds. Death is particularly unpersuaded by the idea of putting a cat in a box to see if it dies.
Death and What Comes Next was originally written for the game website "Timehunt" and is available in the L-Space Web.
Annotations
- Vimes is asked a similar question about his actions in alternate time lines in Night Watch.
- The joke about ape language being a bad fit for quantum ideas reappears in both Night Watch and The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch.