Dragon's Egg

?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