Dragon's Egg: A Novel
Feb 2011 · Del Rey
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“In science fiction there is only a handful of books that stretch the mind—and this is one of them.”—Arthur C. Clarke
In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent lifeforms—the cheela—living on Dragon’s Egg, a neutron star where one Earth hour is equivalent to hundreds of their years. The cheela culturally evolve from savagery to the discovery of science, and for a brief time, men are their diligent teachers.
Praise for Dragon’s Egg
“Bob Forward writes in the tradition of Hal Clement’s Mission of Gravity and carries it a giant step (how else?) forward.”—Isaac Asimov
“Dragon’s Egg is superb. I couldn’t have written it; it required too much real physics.”—Larry Niven
“This is one for the real science-fiction fan.”—Frank Herbert
“Robert L. Forward tells a good story and asks a profound question. If we run into a race of creatures who live a hundred years while we live an hour, what can they say to us or we to them?”—Freeman J. Dyson
“Forward has impeccable scientific credentials, and . . . big, original, speculative ideas.”—The Washington Post
In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent lifeforms—the cheela—living on Dragon’s Egg, a neutron star where one Earth hour is equivalent to hundreds of their years. The cheela culturally evolve from savagery to the discovery of science, and for a brief time, men are their diligent teachers.
Praise for Dragon’s Egg
“Bob Forward writes in the tradition of Hal Clement’s Mission of Gravity and carries it a giant step (how else?) forward.”—Isaac Asimov
“Dragon’s Egg is superb. I couldn’t have written it; it required too much real physics.”—Larry Niven
“This is one for the real science-fiction fan.”—Frank Herbert
“Robert L. Forward tells a good story and asks a profound question. If we run into a race of creatures who live a hundred years while we live an hour, what can they say to us or we to them?”—Freeman J. Dyson
“Forward has impeccable scientific credentials, and . . . big, original, speculative ideas.”—The Washington Post
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4.4
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Virginia Hanley
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April 30, 2019
Well. I got as far as page 59 before i gave up. The first 17 pages were like watching paint dry. It was as if the author was trying to show us how clever he was. There was very little descriptions of other living things, so it was hard to visualize.. It started to get interesting when characters were included but then it all sank into the mire. I feel really let down. Especially as I have an interest in space and it's field.
Geoff Harrison
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February 8, 2020
One of the best sci-fi I've ever read. This is hard sci-fi at its best. The 5 stars are for the story... the price of the book gets a 1 star review. A price of 15GBP is ridiculous! The book is 30 years old. I bought this book in the mid 1990s and it was 5.99GBP ... and that included shipping from the US to the UK. If I want to buy it now as a paperback then I could see the 15GBP price. As an ebook this is an extortionate price. You can buy the ebook version from Amazon Kindle for 5.99GBP. You need to match this Google.
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April 10, 2018
Excellent hard scifi book! What if life evolved on a neutron star? I would buy the digital copy if it didn't have DRM. Sadly it does, so I won't.
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About the author
Robert L. Forward was a consulting scientist, future technologist, lecturer, and science fact and fiction writer. He was the author of Dragon’s Egg and its sequel, Starquake, as well as ten other science fiction novels, three works of science fact, and numerous popular science articles and short stories. He died in 2002.
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