The idea of any computer time being a valuable resource you have to pay for time on in the year 2020 (as is the case at the discovery of the neutron star) is kind of funny in retrospect. Despite all of these complications, Robert Forward somehow manages to make this a Hard Sci-Fi story, and for that I give him 5 million (neutron) stars. The cheela culturally evolve from savagery to the discovery of science, and for a brief time, men are their diligent teachers . In a wildly happy coincidence, the Earth mission discovers sentient life living on the surface of Dragon’s Egg.

It was followed in 1989 by a sequel, Starquake, which picks up exactly where Dragon's Egg leaves off. For instance, the explanation of Faster-Than-Light Travel is encrypted with a key engraved on an object placed in another star system. The cheela culturally evolve from savagery to the discovery of science, and for a brief time men are their diligent teachers. She possessed another egg at the start of the civil war, and took three eggs to the Vale with her during the war [13] Morning hatched from one of the eggs in 130 AC. All of the science is explained and there is some help at the end of the book in the form of essays explaining the science in the book.

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. Entretejido con esto está la historia de cómo los humanos los descubren e interactúan con ellos; Debido a que los humanos trabajan en una escala de tiempo mucho más lenta, la civilización alienígena cambia mucho más rápido y los humanos ven una gran parte de este progreso. What the book lacks in character development it makes up for with the immensely creative world that Forward has created.

When she left for the Vale in 129 AC, she brought three eggs with her, and prayed nightly for them to hatch.

All of Forward's characters speak their thoughts aloud to themselves in stilted, perfectly grammatical monologues on a par with "Oh my. Think about the extended growth of a people from hunters and gatherers all the way to a massively accomplished civilization in the space of a single novel and add a little wrinkle: this happens in the space of how long it takes us for apes to notice a neutron star passing through our Solar System, to put together an expedition, and then to throw scientists at it.

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. Dado que una se apoya en la pura imaginación y presta más atención a las consecuencias que el adelanto tecnológico y científico tiene en la sociedad, en tanto que la otra se ajusta religiosamente a lo que de científico y técnico tiene ese avance, no es de extrañar que la primera soporte mejor los rigores del tiempo que la segunda.RLF really nailed the time compression scenario in this book and the rest of the science in Dragon's Egg seems fairly legit. Within moments of hatching, the monster tore a bloody chunk from the infant Laena's arm, and her father Lord Alyn Velaryon ripped it off her and hacked it to pieces. She laid another clutch of three eggs on Fair Isle between 49– 50 AC, which were brought to Casterly Rock, [27] and then Dragonstone, where they hatched. But, the individual characters in this book are secondary to the relationship between these two vastly different cultures.

I'm torn between giving this three or four stars — it's a bit more than just "I liked it" but it's hard not to notice all the flaws.

Compared to those books, Dragon's Egg is like a child's crayon drawing compared to a van Gogh painting. Yo solo quería saber como los cheelas evolucionaban a partir de un mundo improbable, y en eso Forward cumple. Este proceso es, en algunos aspectos, sospechosamente similar al que siguieron los humanos: tribalismo, migraciones, nacimiento de la religión, escritura y aritmética, sedentarismo, etc. Huevo del dragón es un ejemplo perfecto de qué es la ciencia ficción dura: de lo mejor y de lo peor. Así, estas primeras moléculas ordenadas darán lugar a estructuras capaces de replicarse a si misma y cambiar para adaptar su fisiología al ambiente en el que viven.