Dragon's egg
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- ISBN: 034543529X
- Physical Description 345 pages : illustrations
- Edition 1st trade pbk. ed.
- Publisher New York : Ballantine, 2000.
- Copyright ©1980
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General Note: | "A Del Rey book." "Del Rey Impact" |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 345) |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC $17.95 |
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Dragon's Egg : A Novel
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Summary
Dragon's Egg : A Novel
"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