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Original Title:	Dragon's Egg
ISBN:	034543529X (ISBN13: 9780345435293)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Cheela #1
Literary Awards:	Locus Award for Best First Novel (1981), Seiun Award 星雲賞 for Best Foreign Novel (1983)

Dragon's Egg (Cheela #1)

Robert L. Forward

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 4.15 | 6703 Users | 421 Reviews

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Title	:	Dragon's Egg (Cheela #1)
Author	:	Robert L. Forward
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	February 29th 2000 by Del Rey Books (first published May 1980)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction

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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

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Ratings: 4.15 From 6703 Users | 421 Reviews

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This was such a surprise! One of the major benefits of being in a book club - I read books I would never have picked up on my own. I've already recommended it to a few people.The alien society was a little too "human" for my taste, but the concept was intriguing and executed perfectly. At one point a human on the spaceship, Amalita, says something like "These 15 minute friendships really do a number on the emotions." And they really do. Apparently, the humans in this future have never heard of

Reading twice, finally it's intriguing!

This is "hard" science fiction, my favorite kind.The plot is driven by believable, yet imaginative, consequences of physical laws.What's important to me in an SF novel is that things make sense.I love it when I get the feeling that the story is how it has to be.This book is a perfect example.Astrophysics sets the scene, and the characters do the discovering along side the reader.It's so much fun!

Maybe the best hard scifi I've ever read. Starts off a bit slow, but the crazy, well thought out detail of the alien world is downright exhilarating by the end.



Dragon's Egg is a story assembled out of a few disparate parts. There's the formation of a neutron star from a supernova, the discovery of said star by astronomers in 2020, an expedition to said star... and then there's what's happening on the surface of the neutron star, which proceeds through several different arcs.That last, of course, is where the main imaginative elements of the novel come from. Incredibly, this is an exercise in hard SF, with the main speculative part dealing with the idea

New Year Resolution2018Avoid Roger Penrose's 'I loved this' shelf.I dare say all the positive reviews of this are right, but it's not for me.