Schild's Ladder
- 228
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Schild’s Ladder” is hard science fiction at its most uncompromising, with a whole new physics at its core and real human questions beneath it. Greg Egan imagines a far future in which people can live indefinitely and remake themselves, and asks what then remains of a self. Some readers admit the mathematics is beyond them, and for some the plot loses its footing when events turn very strange near the end.
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About the book
Schild's Ladder is a 2002 science fiction novel by Australian author Greg Egan. The book derives its name from Schild's ladder, a construction in differential geometry, devised by the mathematician and physicist Alfred Schild.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 53 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 27% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 53 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is Schild's Ladder?
It has 228 pages — shorter than 89% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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