- American Science fiction, Neutron stars, Fiction, Fiction, action & adventure
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 . . .
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Robert L. Forward
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 327
- Publisher
- Ballantine, Mnémos, Del Rey
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9782382670217
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