Re: Reading Suggestion

Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote or quoted:

Only a synopsis of SCHILD'S LADDER is known to me at this time.
At first blush, LADDER seems superficially similar to the
Suprahet scourge in Perry Rhodan:

  *** SPOILER ALERT ***

  Heads up, folks! If you're still planning to dive into "Schild's
  Ladder," you might wanna pump the brakes here. The next paragraph's
  a bit of a spoiler, and the one after that? It's a real doozy.

  So, the kickoff of "Schild's Ladder" is off the hook, and the middle
  part's kind of so-so. But the finale? Man, it left me hanging!

  For starters, I'm not buying how they're painting this constant
  cruising at 0.5c as no biggie. (Sure, it's theoretically possible,
  but in practice? Get outta here!) But then it really jumps the
  shark when they're just casually popping into this "other world"
  and shooting the breeze with the locals, conveniently bumping
  into a specific person. It's like the book starts off as hard
  sci-fi but then takes a hard left into fantasyland. (Some dude
  said it gave him "Gulliver's Travels" vibes.)

  Well, some eggheads reckon we might be chillin' in a metastable
  vacuum that could go sideways and flip to the real deal any second.
  And if that goes down, it's curtains for us all before anyone
  can even say "Cowabunga!" - Anyone who's spooked by that kind of
  stuff oughta be tossing and turning when they catch wind of these
  experiments in Nature . . .