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Dragon's Egg

(1980)
(The first book in the Cheela series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1981 Locus Award for Best First Novel
1981 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee)

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 . . .


Genre: Science Fiction

Praise for this book

"Forward's book is a knockout. In science fiction there is only a handful of books that stretch the mind - and this is one of them!" - Arthur C Clarke


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