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Dragon's Egg

Dragon's Egg is a 1980 hard science fiction novel by American writer Robert L. Forward. In the story, Dragon's Egg is a neutron star with a surface gravity 67 billion times that of Earth, and inhabited by cheela, intelligent creatures the size of sesame seeds who evolve, live, and think a million times faster than humans. Most of the novel, from May to…

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Author
Robert L. Forward
Genre
Science fiction
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Del Rey
Cover artist
Darrell K. Sweet
Dewey Decimal
813/.5/4

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Dragon's Egg

Nodes76
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Triples76
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.026316
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Dragon's Egg

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related to Plot introduction · 11
Dragon's Egg → Cheela, Draco, Earth, Forward, In Dragon's Egg, Much, Slow Ones, The, The Cheela, This, Within
related to Growth of civilization · 10
Dragon's Egg → Although, By, However, In, In November, June, May, One, Shortly, The
related to Literary significance and reception · 10
Dragon's Egg → Bob Forward, Charles Sheffield, Frank Herbert, Gravity, Hal Clement's Mission, Isaac Asimov, John Campbell, Larry Niven, Quotes, This
related to The neutron star · 10
Dragon's Egg → AD, Draco, Earth, Half, Homo, In, Its, Large, Sun, The
related to Sequel · 9
Dragon's Egg → Dragon Slayer, Dragon's Egg's, Forward, In, Lambourne, Shallis, Shortland, Starquake, Starquake's
related to Bibliography · 5
Dragon's Egg → Ballantine Books, Forward, ISBN, New York, Technical Appendix
related to Awards and nominations · 3
Dragon's Egg → First Novel, Locus Award, Locus' SF Novel
is a · 2
Dragon's Egg → 1980 hard science fiction novel by American writer Robert L, neutron star with a surface gravity 67 billion times that of Earth
Author · 1
Dragon's Egg → Robert L. Forward
Cover artist · 1
Dragon's Egg → Darrell K. Sweet

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cheela dragon's egg forward star humans neutron fiction novel science human first one gravity later million robert life sesame hard

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Dragon's EggCover artistDarrell K. Sweet1.00infobox
Dragon's EggDewey Decimal813/.5/41.00infobox
Dragon's EggFollowed byStarquake1.00infobox
Dragon's EggGenreScience fiction1.00infobox
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Dragon's EggLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
Dragon's EggLC ClassPS3556.O754 D7 19801.00infobox
Dragon's EggMedia typePrint (hardback & paperback)1.00infobox
Dragon's EggOCLC54107471.00infobox
Dragon's EggPages3451.00infobox
Dragon's EggPublication date19801.00infobox
Dragon's EggPublication placeUnited States1.00infobox
Dragon's EggPublisherDel Rey1.00infobox
Dragon's EggSeriesCheela1.00infobox
Dragon's Eggis a1980 hard science fiction novel by American writer Robert L0.90text
Dragon's Eggis aneutron star with a surface gravity 67 billion times that of Earth0.90text

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