Dragon's Egg

Robert L. Forward

ISBN 10: 034528349X / ISBN 13: 9780345283498

Published by Del Rey, 1981

About this Item

Some minor shelf wear and/or spine creasing. No visible writing on the pages. First paperback edition.

Seller Inventory # 12082

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dragon's Egg
• Publisher: Del Rey
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 034528349X
• ISBN 13: 9780345283498
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Men could never live on such a star; only by the most advanced technology can humans exist in synchronous orbit to observe it. The surface gravity is an incredible sixty-seven billion times that of Earth, with matter so compressed that the mass of a normal star is packed into a crusted sphere only twenty kilometers in diameter. A magnetic field two trillion times that of Earth distorts the nuclei in the crust, and our normal chemical reactions are replaced by neutron reactions.

Yet on that impossible world, men detect intelligent life-the cheela, who live so fast that one of our hours is the equivalent to them of more than a hundred years of human life. And we follow those cheela as they struggle from savagery through the beginnings of agriculture to the discovery of science. In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, we see them establish contact with the humans orbiting above them.

For a time, men are their teachers. For a brief time...

From the Publisher

I joined Random House in 1995 as General Manager for the House of Collectibles imprint. The offices for House of Collectibles are right next door to Del Rey and, since I have a passion for science fiction, I moseyed over and asked Veronica Chapman, a Del Rey editor, for a book recommendation. She asked if I was looking for a fantasy book or a hard science fiction book. I indicated the later and without hesitation she recommended Dragon's Egg.

Wow! What a truly great book! It is so brimming with new ideas and new perspectives that it literally expands your mind. It opens your eyes to new possibilities. Every few pages draw another exclaimation of "Wow!"

I wish I could say, "I liked the book so much, I bought the company." But next best thing did happen: I became General Manager of Del Rey. (Please note that your results from reading this book may vary.) Thank you, Veronica, for this fantastic recommendation which I whole-heartedly pass along to one and all.
                                                --Tim Kochuba, General Manager