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Starquake

(1985)
(The second book in the Cheela series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1986 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee)

Starquake, the sequel to Dragon's Egg, takes place on the surface of a neutron star. The gravity is 67 billion Earth gravities. The native "cheela," the size of sesame seeds, live a million times faster than their human friends in orbit. After a starquake, the humans have only one day to save the remains of cheela civilization from extinction.


Genre: Science Fiction

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