Dragon’s Egg - Robert L. Forward - 1980 BCE Ballantine Books Hardback - Darrell K. Sweet Cover
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Dragon’s Egg - Robert L. Forward - 1980 BCE Ballantine Books Hardback - Darrell K. Sweet Cover

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Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. May show signs of wear such as: • Shelf wear or scuffing on the cover• Creases, marks, or small tears on pages or dust jacket• Possible remainder marks or previous owner’s name/notes inside Cover art: Darrell K. Sweet Blurb: “ONCE IN A WHILE, A NOVEL APPEARS THAT HAS EVERYTHING UNIQUE TO SCIENCE FICTION-A BRILLIANT NEW IDEA, HONEST EXTRAPOLATION OF REAL SCIENCE, A GRIPPING STORY WITH FASCINATING ALIEN CHARACTERS, AND THE INDEFINABLE BUT ESSENTIAL SENSE OF WONDER. SUCH A NOVEL IS ROBERT L. FORWARD'S STORY OF LIFE ON A NEUTRON STAR... Men could never live on such a star; only by the most advanced technology can humans exist in synchronous orbit to observe it. The surface gravity is an incredible sixty-seven billion times that of Earth, with matter so compressed that the mass of a normal star is packed into a crusted sphere only twenty kilometers in diameter. A magnetic field two trillion times that of Earth distorts the nucle

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