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Sannolikhetsdrift
By Mattias Elftorp
2025 April
24 pages.
(also available in English as Probability Drive from Wormgod)
FRAMTIDENS UTOPI har en besättning på tre: Astrid, Isak och Katten, var och en med sina hemligheter. På sin väg mot människokolonin på Nya Paradiset får de problem. De har fått stopp i sin sannolikhetsdrivna Schrödingerianska osäkerhetsmotor och de har viktig last som måste nå kolonin.
De kan bli tvungna att öppna lådan…
About the process behind the book:
Sannolikhetsdrift/Probablilty Drive is a space operette in comics form, also published in English in CBA vol 64. It was made to connect to a guitar body I painted for Ruokangas Guitars and their Art Infused Collection. Elements from the painting were used in the comic, and the story itself evolved due to that collaboration.
I enjoy taking scientific concepts and seeing what can happen if you stretch them and twist them around a bit. This comic was inspired by a few different sources, such as Sven Linqvist‘s Utrota Varenda Jävel (Exterminate All the Brutes) and Ursula K LeGuin‘s The Word for World is Forest. Both books deal with subjects of racism, colonialism and genocide. That felt like a logical backdrop for this story of space colonisation. And of course there’s my complete bastardization of the Schrödinger’s cat parable and the related theories of probability/uncertainty.
It’s also funny that this is one of the few times I (or CBK for that matter) publish anything in Swedish, even though it is my native tongue, and it’s something as un-Swedish as a sci fi story…
Anyway, here are a couple of SAMPLE PAGES:
