Dragon's Egg

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 . . . "Forward's book is a knockout. In science fiction there is only a handful of books that stretch the mind--and this is one of them!" --ARTHUR C. CLARKE "Bob Forward writes in the tradition of Hal Clement's Mission 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 Author of Disturbing the Universe "Forward has impeccable scientific credentials, and . . . big, original, speculative ideas." --The Washington Post