num_pages: 352
description: "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
language: English
title: Dragon's Egg
titlecomplete: Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1)
genres: Classics, Space, Fantasy, Aliens, Novels, Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space Opera, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 8520
series: Cheela
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Foreign Novel
publisher: Random House Worlds