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Schild's Ladder

By Greg Egan

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Cass has stumbled on something that might be an entirely different type of physics, and she's travelled three hundred and fifty light-years to Mimosa Station, a remote experimental facility, to test her theory. The novo-vacuum she creates is predicted to begin decaying the instant it's created, but Continue

Cass has stumbled on something that might be an entirely different type of physics, and she's travelled three hundred and fifty light-years to Mimosa Station, a remote experimental facility, to test her theory. The novo-vacuum she creates is predicted to begin decaying the instant it's created, but even so short-lived a microscopic speck could shed new light on the origins of the universe. But instead of decaying, Cass's novo-vacuum is wildly successful and begins expanding, slowly but inexorably taking over the universe . . . SCHILD'S LADDER: a wild ride through the far future by one of the world's most respected and acclaimed writers.

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    Death: what is it good for? Not much, if these three novels are anything to go by. Bodies are discarded like last season's fashion accessories in Altered Carbon (Gollancz, £10.99), Richard Morgan's homage to old-school cyberpunk. Takeshi Kovacs is an ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • The Best Reviews: Greg Egan, Schild's Ladder

    "Brilliant science fiction tale" Twenty thousand years into the future, humanity has conquered everything in its path including death yet so far at least no other sentient life form has been found that did not originate from earth. Science rules, as ... (read full critics)

    thebestreviews published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • eBook 336 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0575105488
  • ISBN-13: 9780575105485
  • Publisher: Orion
  • Pub date: Dec 30, 2010
  • Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and Others
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