Jesse Barnett

The book was just plain cruel in the amount of theoretical physics that it threw at you. I figured that it might help to try to understand some of Alfred's work first and I was wrong.

The book borrowed it's name from one of Alfred Schild's general relativity formulas. I love math and will even take a side dish of calculus in small amounts. Just say no to differential geometry thou!

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Argent Stonecutter

Oh, Egan almost always does that. You don't really need to pay attention it it, it's not real. Not even the stuff in Quarantine, though I think that was closest to reality. And you need to read Permutation City before the Planck Dive, and see if you catch the 180 in ethics between the two works.

Jesse Barnett

Well I has sad. For 3 decades I read at least one book a week and frequently more. Had a huge library and was a devoted sci-fi fan. My brain was being constantly stretched. Then about the time I got married I got Still Lifed with a Wood Pecker(one of my favorite authors) and had a baby. Just as I learned the joys of frivolous plays on the human language and insane leaps in logic, baby kind of ended my book reading. As my daughter grows, I ended up reading all the Harry Potter and Twilight series.

Now I find myself swimming in code in all my free time. I thoroughly enjoy that, but do look forward to the day when my brain can once again enjoy a good stretching.

Argent Stonecutter

Larry Niven is still writing if you want something more lightweight.