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Dragon's Egg: A Novel

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Naturally, an abundance of plot, appealing characters, a truly novel premise (Forward was an astrophysicist and the quality of the science in his SF is matched only by Brin in the current generation and Asimov or perhaps Niven in the older one), alien sex. I'm reminded of several novels that came out after this one, of course, such as Baxter's Flux, which might be a bit wilder and far-future, but has humans living on a neutron star, too, but I'm also thinking about Children of Time and Crucible of Time from other authors. One human character goes to bed annoyed that he'll be asleep for the Cheela equivalent of a millennium.

Given the gravity in such an environment turns everything into degenerate matter, molecules complex enough to support biology form by atomic nuclei sharing neutrons rather than electrons. However, the attempt to use their magic to kindle a clutch of eggs proved both a debacle and a failure. Si, por otro lado, la prolijidad y veracidad científica dentro del campo de la física, la química o las matemáticas es tal que la obra pueda servir como un manual de instrucciones o un artículo científico, estaremos hablando de ciencia ficción dura. This is the surprisingly engaging story of the Chela, whose world is the surface of a neutron star, and who live lives vastly accelerated compared to human ones. Overall, I give it 3 stars, simply because this is not the first book I've read that follows the evolution of an alien civilization.

To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. As an eight-year-old child, I was bothered by this because I had a good idea that the tiny size of the fire meant that it would burn out quickly, e. Soy biólogo y paleontólogo, siento fascinación por los seres vivos, y es por eso que toda la trama humana y sus pesquisas científicas me pesaron y hartaron.

Esto tiene una explicación argumental, y es que los seres humanos, pese a mantener un pasivo rol de observador, han alterado la evolución de los cheelas y la han dirigido hacía el sendero más prometedor. Consistency in particular seems to be Dragon's Egg's most major virtue and the key to their success over their years of competition.

It took me a while to get into this book, partially because the human characters (and, one could argue, the alien characters) are very flat. Do yourself an enormous favor and discover or rediscover this timeless classic, Dragon’s Egg by Robert L Forward. The fact that a life form could live on a neutron star and evolve so fast, and the Cheela discussing "The ancients" who were alive only a few (Earth) minutes ago was an interesting and wonderful new perspective. Este es el punto de partida de Huevo del dragón, uno de los ejercicios de imaginación científica más fascinantes y, al mismo tiempo, de las historias peor construidas que he leído en mi vida. Este proceso es, en algunos aspectos, sospechosamente similar al que siguieron los humanos: tribalismo, migraciones, nacimiento de la religión, escritura y aritmética, sedentarismo, etc.

It reminds me of a passage in The Indian in the Cupboard where "normal" sized Omri prepares a campfire for the tiny Indian with which to warm himself and to cook a tiny chunk of meat. Cómo este tratado este componente y el grado de verosimilitud que presente es lo que nos permitirá realizar la distinción. A Hal Clement type of story - one which is based on hard science and physics - but with a little more sophisticated character development.Further afield, the stunning Elan Valley, a landscape bursting with impressive dams and reservoirs, is well worthy of an explore. Hay un defecto que suele traer consigo la excesiva especialización en ciencia, más aún cuando el que la practica es una eminencia en su campo, a saber, la convicción de que cualquier problema o incógnita puede ser resuelta desde ese campo de estudio. The compounds in cheela bodies (and in everything else on Egg) are held together by nuclear forces, unlike the electromagnetic forces that keep our atoms together here on Earth. It's about how life might arise on the surface of a neutron star and how that civilization might evolve.

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