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| - Quantum fiction is a literary genre that reflects modern experience of the material world and reality as influenced by quantum theory and new principles in quantum physics. The genre blurs the line separating science fiction and fantasy into a broad scope of mainstream literature that transcends the mechanical model of science and involves the fantasy of human perception or imagination as realistic components affecting the every day physical world. This genre is characterized by any or all of the following characteristics:
* The author's use of quantum mechanics to make plausible supernatural, paranormal, or fantastic elements of a story in which reality appears to defy the laws of mechanical physics
* A character as a consciously influencing observer of reality
* The scientific recognition of an unquantified animating force of matter measured by Observer effect (physics), posited as consciousness or spirit
* A theme, character, or events of a story existing per an element explainable as reality according to quantum theory
* Adventures involving synchronicity, multiple dimension reality, interactive metaverses, parallel worlds or life as a multiverse
* Consciousness (a character or a reader) as an interactive influence in the creation and perception of reality and plot line
* Reality behaving unpredictably as per subatomic particles The genre quantum fiction was coined by American novelist Vanna Bonta to define stories in which consciousness affects physics and determines reality; in her words, "the genre is broad and includes life." Bonta further explained her development of this new genre: "I don't write science fiction. Science fiction is a niche genre, defined by Ray Bradbury as depiction of the real. 'Quantum fiction' is the realm of all possibilities. The genre is broad, and includes life because fiction is an inextricable part of reality in its various stages, and vice versa."
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