Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1) in Building a SciFi/Fantasy Library

Jul 28, 2017 Rindis rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, science-fiction

Dragon's Egg is a story assembled out of a few disparate parts. There's the formation of a neutron star from a supernova, the discovery of said star by astronomers in 2020, an expedition to said star... and then there's what's happening on the surface of the neutron star, which proceeds through several different arcs.

That last, of course, is where the main imaginative elements of the novel come from. Incredibly, this is an exercise in hard SF, with the main speculative part dealing with the idea ...more

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Feb 20, 2008 Mike rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: scifi

Five stars, Dragon’s Egg by Robert Forward Dragon's Egg
is simple, straightforward, scientifically sound. Finally found and reread a replacement for the copy lent out long ago and never returned. Why is this story (and the sequel StarQuake Starquake) so much fun? A plucky researcher follows her hunch and discovers the neutron star passing near the Solar System. Mankind launches a mission (with the plucky researcher’s son as the mission commander) to study the star and discovers an intelligent rac ...more

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Jan 24, 2014 Lucija rated it it was amazing

Shelves: sf

At first I wanted to give it 4 stars because of human characters, which are very simple, but the cheelas won me over. Their description, their character and their development. It really is something that stretches the mind.

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