Dimensions
111 x 178 x 29mm
Greg Egan's latest novel elegantly blends cutting edge science and gripping plotting with two engaging protagonists, grappling in an all too human fashion with the opposing creeds of a distant and alien future.
The Sarumpaet Rules have governed every observable phenomenon in the universe for millennia. But Cass has discovered a new set of physics. She strives to bring them to life in a 'novo-vacuum'; an attempt to briefly glimpse an alternative universe in the hope of further insights into the origins of our own. In her wildest dreams she never anticipated the experiment becoming stable, much less the creation of a miniature universe expanding faster than our own.
Six centuries later, and two thousand inhabited systems have been lost to Cass's experiment. Preservationists and Yielders from throughout inhabited space journey to study the novo-vacuum, seeking understanding in order to respectively destroy or explore this new world. Tichicaya and Mariama are two such opponents, forced to chart the strange galactic waters beyond our own by an increasingly violent response of the old universe to the new . . .
