Dragon's egg

by

345 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 1980 by Ballantine Books.

OCLC Number:
5410747

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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 . . .

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