# Schild’s Ladder

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- Book: [Schild’s Ladder](https://www.bookquiver.com/greg-egan/schilds-ladder) ([Schild’s Ladder.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/greg-egan/schilds-ladder.md))
- Authors: [Greg Egan](https://www.bookquiver.com/greg-egan)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7510-548-5
- Published: 2010-12-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.