Hardcover, 345 pages
English language
Published May 1980 by Del Rey.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-345-28646-8
- OCLC Number:
- 5410747
- ISFDB ID:
- 6773
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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 . . .