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Summary: Top Of The Line Science Fiction
Review: This is the very best in Scifi that I have read. I have loaned it out to numerous people who felt the same way and one friend wouldn't let go so I am searching for another copy now! It has twists and turns that leave you breathless and the characters are extremely well developed. Read this!
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Summary: It's good.
Review: This is without out doubt one of the overall best books, I've read. Engrossing, meaningful and self-evaluative. And if you're just looking for mind candy, you'll still love it.
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Summary: Oh, there are only 5 stars to give?
Review: Well, I am German and so I read the german translation named "Das Drachenei".Within 3 month, pen friends all over germany send me this book to my birthday and so I've had it SEVEN times then. Of course I gave it away 6 times but no my last one has gone anywhere and I tried to get it back - without success. It is so sad, but where can I get this book again to read it again and again and again! It is the best book I have ever read (and I am owner of more than 2000 books about sci(fi)! regards, Marc Humer, Germany
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Summary: Good hard sci fi
Review: What if there were intelligent creatures on the surface of a neutron star, one that's twenty kilometers in diameter with a surface gravitation 67 billion times that of the earth? Forward thinks through, in great detail, what such creatures and their history and civilization might be like, and he tells a good story about the cheela (as they are called) and their interactions with some human explorers--interactions complicated by cheelas' and humans' vastly different experiences of time. The book includes an illustrated "technical appendix" about the neutron star, the cheela, and the human spaceship (information extracted from the 2064 edition of a science encyclopedia published by Random House Interplanetary). Highly recommended for fans of hard sci fi.
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