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Feb 29, 2000 · Dragon's Egg: A Novel (Del Rey Impact) Paperback – February 29, 2000. 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.
Dragon's Egg is a 1980 hard science fiction novel by American writer Robert L. Forward. In the story, Dragon's Egg is a neutron star with a surface gravity 67 billion times that of Earth, and inhabited by cheela, intelligent creatures the size of a sesame seed who live, think and develop a million times faster than humans.
- Robert L. Forward
- 1980
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May 1, 1980 · Dragon’s Egg is the story of the cheela, a civilization of tiny beings that evolved on the surface of Egg, a neutron star. The 67-billion-g surface gravity of Egg and its spin rate of over 1000 revolutions per second pose unique difficulties for the inhabitants of the star.
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In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent life forms--the cheela--living on Dragon's Egg, a neutron star where one Earth hour is equivalent to hundreds of their years.
- Robert L. L. Forward
Nov 27, 2011 · The Dragon’s Egg. By Adam Gopnik. November 27, 2011. The Eragon books offer the enchantment of an alternative world fully entered. Illustration by R. Kikuo Johnson. At Oxford in the...