Reddit reviews Dragon's Egg: A Novel (Del Rey Impact)

My Grandfather wrote this book! Excited to see it mentioned here.

If you're looking to read this book, Amazon has it:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/034543529X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_0qH3AbCEG5HKX

No, I don't see any money from sales, I just like seeing my grandfather's work being enjoyed!

Also, if you like good "hard science" fiction novels, you may enjoy Dragon's Egg.

I think you're recalling the plot of Dragon's Egg by Roberrt Forward, in which the other species live very accelerated lives on the surface of a passing neutron star. Good book.

Listening to him describe surface irregularities (mountains) on a neutron star reminded me of Dragon's Egg by Robert Forward. Definitely worth a read if you're into hard sci-fi.

If you liked that episode, check out the book Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Foreward. It's a great read, with a similar concept underneath it.

If you like hard sci-fi, I cannot recommend Dragon's Egg enough!

> Dragon's Egg is a neutron star with a surface gravity 67 billion times that of Earth, and inhabited by cheela, intelligent creatures that have the volume of sesame seeds and live a million times faster than humans. Most of the novel, from May to June 2050, chronicles the cheela civilization beginning with its discovery of agriculture to its first face-to-face contact with humans, who are observing the star from orbit.

Dragon's Egg - Robert Forward

I really enjoyed Dragon's Egg. I can't really describe it. Just decides to have life evolve upon a Neutron star, and takes it from there rather amazingly.

http://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Egg-Del-Rey-Impact/dp/034543529X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252318775&sr=1-1

Read "The Dragon's Egg" by Robert L. Forward for a very cool look at what life would be like on the surface of a neutron star.

Have you ever seen the table of nuclides? The neutron is included on this version of the "physicist's periodic table." I don't see the neutron being added to the chemist's periodic table since a free neutron does not hold an electron and would not do chemistry. An "ionized neutron" doesn't even make sense to me. Neutron stars are cool but not very relevant to most chemists (if you like neutron star speculation, you might like The Dragon's Egg by Robert L Forward).

Love it, Great read.

http://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Egg-Del-Rey-Impact/dp/034543529X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1369884995&sr=1-2&keywords=dragons+egg

Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, currently tearing through Woken Furies by Richard Morgan

fast-paced and well written stories of a commando-type. gritty and cool Gibonesque universe where consciousness is stored on in a small metal cylinder at the base of the skull, you can die, be revived, change bodies, etc. cool AI hotels, unfathomable ancient Martian tech, lots of guns

also just finished Dragon's Egg and Starquake by Robert L Forward

1mm alien slugs living life a million times faster than humans on a neutron star with 63 billion times the gravity of Earth. hard science. dry dialog for humans, but really well done conception and description of such an alien race, from when they first learned how to use natural tools, until they have control of blackholes, FTL/time travel, etc. (over a few Solar days)

Encounter with Tiber

Spin

Julian Comstock

Domain / Resurrection

Dragon's Egg / Starquake

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Dragon's Egg by Robert Forward


These are "hard" science fiction books: they try to be as realistic as possible. They make you feel like we'll be living on mars in a couple years.

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Mars-Trilogy-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0553560735/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268769251&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Egg-Del-Rey-Impact/dp/034543529X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268769139&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Egg-Del-Rey-Impact/dp/034543529X

Dragon's Egg by Robert L Forward. It's fairly obscure and fucking brilliant.

From Amazon: "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."

Not perhaps relevant, but The Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward is a fun read that ponders an existence on the surface of a neutron star.