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  • Cheela, Book 1
  • Written by: Robert L. Forward
  • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
  • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (37 ratings)

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Dragon's Egg

Written by: Robert L. Forward
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
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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.

©1980 Dr. Robert L. Forward (P)2017 Tantor

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“Forward has impeccable scientific credentials, and...big, original, speculative ideas." ( The Washington Post)

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This is one of the greatest SciFi classics ever.

Witness the story of the evolution of a lifeform under unfathomable conditions to humans. I have read this book multiple times and it always moves me at the end.

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