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  <title><![CDATA[Dragon's Egg (Del Rey Impact)]]></title>
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  <default_description>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 . . .</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1980</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Robert L. Forward]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dragon's Egg has nothing to do with dragons -- the dragon's egg is a neutron star being visited by humans who are suspending themselves in a stationary orbit by means of a propulsion laser.<br/><br/>The laser light falls to and illuminates a small portion of the surface of the star. As it happens,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7718645">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is qualified as hard sci-fi, although being written in 1980, some of the science is slightly out of date, although not badly.  In the not-too-distant future, researchers at Caltech discover a star closer to Earth than any other, located just below the constellation Draco, hence the name Drgon's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71773237">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57273906">
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I am a fan of science fiction, hard SF usually leaves me wanting. Good science is great, but a good story is much more important to me than if the author got the principles of orbital mechanics correct. Thankfully this book has both. The book details the finding of intelligent life on a neutro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57273906">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 30 13:22:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 02 12:02:40 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alright, here's the basic gist: intelligent life lives on a planet that rotates five times per second.  Because of the speed of rotation, gravity is very strong, and the life forms come out very unusual.  Meanwhile, we Earthlings have discovered this asteroid, and send a research team to check it ou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65565264">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42409302">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 08 18:43:20 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 10 11:39:41 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Picking up this book after glowing reviews from my husband, I wasn't quite sure what to expect from a tale of life on a neutron star.  It took a number of pages before I got my head around Forward's descriptions of the early plant and animal life on Dragon's Egg.  Once the story picked up, I was hoo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42409302">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61775960">
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 01 10:55:53 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Following the evolution from simple life to a full-blown civilization on the surface of a neutron star, this book has been described as a physics textbook disguised as a novel. If so, it's an incredibly entertaining one with interesting and complex characters that you can somehow empathize with desp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61775960">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65793872">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is actually the second time I have read this book. As a raw story about the rise of a civilization the book is quite average, maybe even simple-minded, but when you take into account that the civilization consists of 0.5 mm long 70 kg creatures on the surface of a white dwarf star, things are m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65793872">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42377026">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was not the most engrossing sci-fi story, but it was just enough off the beaten path to be compelling.  Humans come into contact with some aliens on their own planet (the humans are watching from space).  The aliens live and evolve at an unreal pace compared to human time.  Fascinating.]]></body>
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    <review id="62915942">
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about physics, and I have a PhD in physics, so I thought I'd love it. I only made it 50 pages into this thing and gave up. In my fiction I need characters that are interesting and to have them in intruiging situations. I got none of that in the first 50 pages. Perhaps there is some late...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62915942">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36458068">
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    <body><![CDATA[I was revisiting an old friend, for some bizarre reason I didn't own a copy so when I saw one sitting around minding its own business I pounced with glee. This is science fiction at it's best, detailed, informative and compelling. The kind of book where you resent the need to sleep because there are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36458068">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16891828">
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember reading this book as a child and being amazed, but when I reread it, I found that although the science was highly detailed and brilliantly imaginative, the writing was pretty much crap.  This is one of those sci-fi books that people complain about: the book is about the science, and the c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16891828">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51387069">
    <user id="2185611">
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    <body><![CDATA[All plot and science; very little in character development. But life on a neutron star is a fascinating premise, eh?]]></body>
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    <review id="62045825">
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    <body><![CDATA[A hard science book. You well learn a little Physics reading theis book. Enjoyed very much]]></body>
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    <review id="17285430">
    <user id="589797">
    <name><![CDATA[Ryan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book it realy filled me with wonder and Amazment. At some levels it feels like Flatland just because the creatures live in such an alien world yet have such human emotions. The Chella's story isn't exactly the same as ours but it makes me think in retrospect how much an environment can ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17285430">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57870106">
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    <name><![CDATA[Evan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this was a good book. About creaturs that live 100 years while we live an hour]]></body>
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    <review id="23864505">
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    <body><![CDATA[So I'm reading everyone's reviews about how this is not a &quot;character based&quot; story and is &quot;good for what it is, a deep science scifi book&quot; and I'm going Huuu?? I guess I just didnt notice lack of character development. There is enough development that your imagination easily expan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23864505">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62513388">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A favorite Sci-fi novel...]]></body>
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    <review id="35589158">
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    <body><![CDATA[I concur with Peter's assessment. It's entertaining. I also read the 2nd one, Starquake. The lives/culture of the amoebas is described in that one in greater detail and it's interesting to see the evolution/devolution of their culture through various events. Having the amoebas live like 10x faster t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35589158">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So this is a kind of weird scifi about discovering life on a nearby star that lives at one million times the speed of humans.  The segments about the development and evolution of the cheela (the star-species) were much more interesting than the human bits, so the novel was sort of uneven, but I enjo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8286510">more...</a>]]></body>
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