Schild's Ladder

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Good, but not as good as his previous books. submitted by rjstone on June 4, 2008, 1:53pm This book makes more reference to esoteric scientific concepts than previous Greg Egan books that I have read, in fact my cursory understanding of quantum physics was only enough to barely understand what he was taking about regarding that subject, but the book is still readable anyway as the more esoteric explanations are described in more analogous terms as well.

If you are sick of the usual Star Trek nonsense where the only thing that makes an alien is a different bump on their forehead, then this is a good book to read. Greg Egan is constantly pushing the limits of what constitutes life and what forms life can take.

I didn't like this book as much as Greg Egan's Diaspora and Permutation City though. I'd recommend reading those books before this one.