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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

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004G8PJDA
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Del Rey; Reprint edition (February 16, 2011)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 16, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3124 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 354 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 034543529X
Reviewer: Robert P Gelms
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: No omlete's on this one.
Review: Baby DragonBy Bob Gelms The most popular science fiction sub-genres are first contact and time travel stories. I know this must be serendipity because I have bumped into two of the best examples of both. I’m writing about first contact in this issue and time travel in the next issue. In my little world, Dragon’s Egg by Robert L Forward is in competition with Arthur C Clarke’s Childhood’s End as the best first contact novel off all time. It is delightfully surprising. Dragon's Egg has NOTHING in common with Childhood’s End. In fact, it has nothing in common with any other first contact novel I have ever read. It is unique. It is also a prime example of a hard science story. All of the science is explained and there is some help at the end of the book in the form of essays explaining the science in the book. After reading the novel you will be conversant in everything relating to a neutron star. It’s fascinating. 500,000 years ago, in the constellation Draco, a star exploded, a supernova, clearly visible from Earth. After a while it cooled and was flung out into the Milky Way Galaxy. Eons go by and it finally reached the far outer edges of our solar system where it was detected by Earthlings. A science mission was sent out to study the little neutron star as it traversed our solar system. Because it originated in the constellation of Draco it was given the name Dragon’s Egg. In a wildly happy coincidence, the Earth mission discovers sentient life living on the surface of Dragon’s Egg. This is completely unexpected. The gravity on a neutron star is utterly crushing, the surface temperature is about 8,000 degrees and the radiation could fry a human being from about 50 light years away. Yet, there they were. They call themselves the Cheela. There is, however, one gargantuan monkey wrench thrown into the Cheela’s life on Dragon’s Egg. I’m not going to completely ruin the surprise but it’s a bombshell. The Earth mission discovers that the Cheela are a civilization that has only progressed to a very savage and early state in their development. Earthlings are very advanced compared to the Cheela so we decide to help them along. (Whatever happened to the Prime Directive-do not interfere, LOL?) The Cheela rapidly progress in their development and are unequivocally brilliant. As they draw equal to us in technological advancement, we stay in contact but we stop teaching them and, as a parting gift, we send them an encyclopedia. The Cheela use the encyclopedia as an intellectual springboard to race far ahead of us both in the advancement of their civilization and in the dazzling state of their technology. They have kept this from us just as we did with them. However, they have come to a generous bequest. I am not giving away the denouement, but it’s a very special gift from one grateful race of sentient beings to another. Live long and prosper. Dragon’s Egg by Robert L Forward is a great, great book. It’s everything science fiction reaches for. There are abundant ideas that will keep your head spinning, new ideas and ideas for the future. The huge problems in the novel are solved in extremely clever ways. The solutions do not take advantage of the other race. There are no wars, death from particle weapons, invasions, multi-generational starships, dastardly intentions, galaxy sized aggressive behaviors or zombies. It is important to note that first contact with an extraterrestrial sentient race in Dragon’s Egg happens entirely by accident. We were not looking for it. As far as we were concerned, we were alone in the universe. SURPRISE! It turns out the Cheela were more stunned than we were. A wise old science fiction writer once wrote, “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” Del Rey Publishing has created a new imprint called Del Rey Impact. These are books that have slipped through the cracks for one reason or another and are being given a second chance to find an audience because they are important and should be widely read. There are nine books on the Impact imprint and it just so happens that Dragon’s Egg is accompanied by none other than my favorite science fiction book of all time and the best first contact book ever, Childhood’s End by Arthur C Clarke. Do yourself an enormous favor and discover or rediscover this timeless classic, Dragon’s Egg by Robert L Forward.

Reviewer: BigOrangeDave
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Challenging Read
Review: This book is a challenging read for a couple of reasons.First, there is a lot of science, very detailed science, in the book. Gravity, the challenges of describing life as it might exist in a neutron star, time differentials as well as the difference in scale between humans and these amazing aliens. I won't pretend to understand most of it and It can make reading such dense material slow going. However the payoff is worth it!Second, the sheer scale and scope of the story is staggering. We follow this alien race from its elementary beginnings to the point where it becomes the teacher. Both humans and the aliens are connected in Scientific, theological and philosophical ways. The author does such a magnificent job of telling the story that it is more than worth the challenge of reading it.

Reviewer: CatEater McCommie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Classic real sci-fi
Review: Great book - particularly for its time. Fascinating, ZERO stupid sci-fi tropes just good solid sci-fi.

Reviewer: K.V.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Mind=Blown!
Review: Amazing story telling!!! A mind-expanding book that saves the best for last.

Reviewer: Robert L
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fascinating physics, short shrift in characterizations, but still a good read.
Review: While the physics that make this a story are very impressive, the "biology" isn't. I did like the book, overall, and it was quite interesting but the evolution of a single sentient species goes beyond what I would consider believable. (Yeah, I know, that's the only part of it that's unbelievable, right?) Heh. But, really, most of the 'cheela' were one-dimensional but that was kind of necessary at the pace of the story, but the human characters... they should have been given a bit more substance. Yet, since the forte of the story is the development of the 'cheela', I give it a pass and rate this 4-stars. It's an interesting read, one I can recommend due to the uniqueness of the vision of the author but don't expect much depth of feeling from the characters. Recommended.

Reviewer: Ryan R
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fantastic Read
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this far fetched novel. Reads very fast and as I was getting close to the end I didn’t want this book to end. Plenty of physics in the book as well. Just a great book.

Reviewer: SpaceManSpiff
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Entertaining
Review: A great concept, which is what lead me to read the book in the first place. Some of the science is glaringly wrong though, which was difficult to ignore. Overall, this was an entertaining and enjoyable read.

Reviewer: ac
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A compelling read
Review: What a fantastic story! I go through phases where I don't pick up a book for a long time, then I jump online and do a bit of research and download a few and lately I've found myself wading through 'space opera' and not really enjoying the length or lack of pace in such books. As someone who gets bored of very lengthy books, this novel was a breathe of fresh air, I couldn't put it down. Very thought provoking and fast paced, almost too fast paced to be honest. I was so absorbed in it I didn't want it to end.The story of the rise of the cheela civilisation was enthralling. I won't go in to the plot as many others have done but what I will say is this, if you like hard sci fi and are fascinated by how intelligent life would evolve under completely different conditions to us then this is a must read. The story is quite humorous in places and I particularly enjoyed how the rise in their technology was reflected in how they were named. As another reviewer has mentioned, when humans and cheela finally meet, it is indeed a blast and had me smiling.As a few others have mentioned, the human characters are quite one dimensional however I didn't see that as a bad thing at all, there are plenty of other novels out there where the story is based around the human character development. In this case I think it was much better for the humans to take a back seat, trust me the cheela were far more interesting!!

Reviewer: Manfred S
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Leben und Intelligenz auf einem Neutronenstern auf Basis von Atomkernen nicht Atomen wie bei uns auf der Erde; utopisch und anregend. Im Anhang werden auch die Grundzüge der Physik eines Neutronen Sternes erläutert.

Reviewer: Marcus Maia
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: deveria ter uma continuação , com o povo chela explorando a galáxia junto comps humanos , não conhecia o autor até esse livro

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This book took through a very well imagined journey. I would compare it to Martian and interstellar. I would read it again to understand the science.

Reviewer: RGW
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Really fascinating and enjoyable hard (and I do mean HARD) sci fi. I'm not an expert in any of the fields dealt with in this work so I don't know how plausible the science really is. But the author sure made it seem plausible.The premise is very imaginative and the story of the development of the cheela civilization is really gripping. And the different speeds of human and cheela life gave the whole thing a bit of real poignancy.All in all a very enjoyable and thought-provoking read.

Reviewer: Phil FNQ
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Dragon's Egg lives up to the promise of mind bending concepts in a hard-science framework. It does so in an entertaining way with lots of short characterisations. I have not read anything like this before - thoroughly recommended.