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Initially, George Alec Effinger's "Schrodinger's Kitten" would seem to be an odd choice for an music production. True, this is of the exceedingly rare breed of short stories to win both the Hugo (1989) and Nebula (1988) awards, and Effinger is a writer who's accumulated his share of well-deserved critical acclaim over time. But Effinger, as a writer, is a stylist. It's his skill with the written word, that elusive knack for putting not only the right two words together on the page, however the exactly right two words that is definitely his signature. Whether it's the brooding, Arabic cyberpunk future of When Gravity Fails, the absurdist failure of "Who Dat?" or the outrageous farce of the Maureen Birnbaum tales, it is the deft wordplay that sets these works apart rather than cutting-edge ideas or intricate plotting. "Schrodinger's Kitten," certainly, shares the trademark wordplay of Effinger's other work: starting with the insufferably coy title. Immediately the listener is plunged into a non-linear narrative, which eventually is revealed to be very linear: at least from the perspective of the viewpoint character, Jehan. It's immediately apparent that 12-year-old Jehan is the kitten of the title, a frightened girl tormented by unsettling visions in the Islamic slum of Budayeen. It is here, during the festival marking the finish of Ramadan, that she must kill a boy she has never met. A boy that her visions show her may 1 day do her great harm.
