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Release Date : 2013-09
Publisher by : Booksllc.Net
ISBN : 1230792295
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: /usr/bin/god, Across the Sea of Suns, Ark (Baxter novel), A Fall of Moondust, A World Out of Time, Blindsight (science fiction novel), Camelot 30K, Death or Glory (Russian novel), Diaspora (novel), Dragon's Egg, Eater (novel), Einstein's Bridge (novel), Fifty Degrees Below, Flood (Baxter novel), Invitation to the Game, In the Ocean of Night, Iron Sunrise, Kings of the High Frontier, Looking Glass (series), Murasaki (novel), NASA Trilogy, Perfect Imperfection, Quarantine (Greg Egan novel), Raft (novel), Redemption Ark, Saturn Rukh, Sixty Days and Counting, Tau Zero, The Collapsium, The Color of Distance, The Door into Summer, The Killing Star, The Third Pandemic, The Wellstone, The World at the End of Time, To Crush the Moon, Voyage (novel). Excerpt: Dragon's Egg is a hard science fiction novel written by Robert L. Forward and published in 1980. In the story, 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. The novel is regarded as a landmark in hard science fiction. As is typical of the genre, Dragon's Egg attempts to communicate unfamiliar ideas and imaginative scenes while giving adequate attention to the known scientific principles involved. Half a million years ago and 50 light-years from Earth, a star in the constellation Draco turns supernova, and the star's remnant becomes a neutron star. The radiation from the explosion causes mutations in many Earth organisms, including a group of hominina that become the ancestors of Homo sapiens. The......