Schild's Ladder
Author | : Greg Egan |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2010-12-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780575105485 |
ISBN-13 | : 0575105488 |
Rating | : 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.