Schroedinger's Cheshire Cats

The Summoner, an alien god seeking the formula for the soul, imprisons six representatives of humanity within a thought experiment. Omniscient enough to observe the history of our universe up to the Horizon of Now, but unable to see inside the mysteries of free will, he watches these humans struggle to understand their new reality. The captives must fight for survival like a herd of Schroedinger's cats battling alien monsters, political revolution, plague, and war. They wander like rats in a maze as the Summoner studies their individual thoughts and compares and contrasts all aspects of their human civilization. If his experiment is successful he will use his data to create a new Eden populated with his stolen souls. This is a multi-layered, techno-poetic, story of mankind and reality. Full of philosophy and physics, the tale falls between science fiction and science fantasy. The well known Schroedinger's Cat thought experiment considers the quantum nature of reality. The wave function exists inside the box and then collapses when the box is opened and its interior is observed. But, there is no consideration for the cat! What does the cat choose to do inside the box? On one level this is an adventure story. On another level, the Summoner is science itself. Wrapped around it all, the author summons his characters to populate his new creation.