<b>“In science fiction there is only a handful of books that stretch the mind—and this is one of them.”—Arthur C. Clarke</b><br /> <b> </b><br /> 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.<br />  <br /> <b>Praise for <i>Dragon’s Egg</i></b><br />  <br /> “Bob Forward writes in the tradition of Hal Clement’s <i>Mission of Gravity</i> and carries it a giant step (how else?) forward.”<b>—Isaac Asimov </b><br />  <br /> “<i>Dragon’s Egg</i> is superb. I couldn’t have written it; it required too much real physics.”<b>—Larry Niven </b><br />  <br /> “This is one for the real science-fiction fan.”<b>—Frank Herbert</b><br />  <br /> “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?”<b>—Freeman J. Dyson</b><br />  <br /> “Forward has impeccable scientific credentials, and . . . big, original, speculative ideas.”<b>—<i>The Washington Post</i></b>