Dragon’s Egg
Author: Robert L. Forward
“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 evol….Read More
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