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A combined weekend edition for europe and pacific is published on fridays, and a middle eastonly edition is posted friday through sunday. Even worse, the menacing and contemptuous fenachrones are threatening to conquer the galaxy and wipe out all who oppose them. If egan s previous books have simply weirded you out, if you found them incomprehensible, if you think posthuman protagonists are too strange for comfort, if you consider the notion of transforming the universe too grandiose, well, then schild s ladder is not a book for you. Schilds ladder, the original, is from 1970, and is a construction for doing parallel transport in general relativity misner, thorne, and wheeler, gravitation box 10.
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